Command and Control

“Nuclear Weapons Engineering and Delivery,” Los Alamos Technical Series, Volume 23, LA-1161 July 1946 (SECRET/declassified).

“Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site: The First Decade,” John C. Hopkins and Barbara Killian, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, May 2011.

“On a Distributed Command and Control System Configuration,” Paul Baran, U.S. Air Force, Project RAND, Research Memorandum, RM-2632, December 31, 1960.

“On Distributed Communications Networks,” Paul Baran, RAND Corporation, P-2626, September 1962.

“On the Risk of an Accidental or Unauthorized Nuclear Detonation,” Fred Charles Iklé with Gerald J. Aronson and Albert Madansky, Research Memorandum, U.S. Air Force Project RAND, RM-2251, October 15, 1958 (CONFIDENTIAL/RESTRICTED DATA/declassified).

“On Weapons Plutonium in the Arctic Environment (Thule, Greenland),” Mats Eriksson, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark, Risø-R-1321(EN), April 2002.

“Operation Castle, Project 3.2: Crater Survey, Headquarters, Field Command, Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, June 1955 (SECRET/FORMERLY RESTRICTED DATA/declassified).

“Operation Dominic: Fish Bowl Series,” Project Officers Report — Project 8C, Reentry Vehicle Tests, M. J. Rubenstein, Air Force Special Weapons Center, July 3, 1963 (SECRET/RESTRICTED DATA/declassified).

“Operation Dominic I, 1962,” United States Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests, Nuclear Test Personnel Review, Defense Nuclear Agency, February 1983.

“Operation Dominic II, Shot Small Boy, Project Officers Report — Project 7.14: Bomb Alarm Detector Test,” Cecil C. Harvell, Defense Atomic Support Agency, April 19, 1963 (CONFIDENTIAL/FORMERLY RESTRICTED DATA/declassified).

“Operation Ivy 1952,” United States Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests, Nuclear Test Personnel Review, Defense Nuclear Agency, DNA 6036F, December 1, 1982.

“Operation Upshot-Knothole, 1953,” United States Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests, Nuclear Test Personnel Review, Defense Nuclear Agency, DNA 6014F, January 11, 1982.

“The Origins and Evolution of S2C at Sandia National Laboratories, 1949–1996,” William L. Stevens, Consultant to Surety Assessment Center, Sandia National Laboratories, SAND99-1308, September 2001 (OFFICIAL USE ONLY).

“Our Nation’s Nuclear Warning System: Will It Work if We Need It?” Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, September 26, 1985.

“Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation and Secruity Issues,” Paul K. Kerr and Mary Beth Nikitin, CRS Report for Congress, Congressional Research Service, March 19, 2013.

“PAL Control of Theater Nuclear Weapons,” Mark E. Bleck and Paul R. Souder, Command and Control Division, Sandia National Laboratories, SAND82-2436, March 1984 (SECRET/FORMERLY RESTRICTED DATA/declassified).

“Palomares Summary Report,” Field Command, Defense Nuclear Agency, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, January 15, 1975.

“Peace Is Our Profession; Alert Operations and the Strategic Air Command, 1957–1991,” Office of the Historian, Headquarters, Strategic Air Command, December 7, 1991.

“Pit Lifetime,” JSR-06-335, MITRE Corporation, January 11, 2007.

“Plutonium Hazards Created by Accidental or Experimental Low-Order Detonation of Nuclear Weapons,” W. H. Langham, P. S. Harris, and T. L. Shipman, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, LA-1981, December 1955 (SECRET/RESTRICTED DATA/declassified).

“The Postattack Population of the United States,” Ira S. Lowry, RAND Corporation, Prepared for the Technical Analysis Branch, United States Atomic Energy Commission, RM-5115-TAB, December 1966.

“A Preliminary Report on the B-52 Accident in Greenland on January 21, 1968,” Jørgen Koch, Symposium on Radiological Protection of the Public in Nuclear Mass Disasters, Interlaken, Switzerland, May 1968.

“A Primer on U.S. Strategic Nuclear Policy,” David M. Kunsman and Douglas B. Lawson, Sandia National Laboratories, SAND2001-0053, January 2001.

“Progress Report to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Part III: Weapons,” United States Atomic Energy Commission, June Through November 1952 (TOP SECRET/RESTRICTED DATA/declassified).

“Project Crescent: A Study of Salient Features for an Airborne Alert (Supersafe) Bomb,” Final Report, D. E. McGovern, Exploratory Systems Department I, Sandia Laboratories, SC-WD-70-879, April 1971 (SECRET/RESTRICTED DATA/declassified).

“Project Crested Ice: The Thule Nuclear Accident,” Vol. 1, SAC Historical Study No. 113, History & Research Division, Headquarters, Strategic Air Command, April 23, 1969 (declassified), NSA.

“Project Crested Ice: USAF B-52 Accident at Thule, Greenland, 21 January 1968,” Defense Nuclear Agency, 1968 (SECRET/RESTRICTED DATA/declassified).

“Protecting U.S. Power to Strike Back in the 1950’s and 1960’s,” A. J. Wohlstetter, F. S. Hoffman and H. S. Rowen, U.S. Air Force Project RAND, R-290, September 1, 1956 (FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY).

“The Quick Count System: A User’s Manual,” N. D. Cohen, RAND Corporation, RM-4006-PR, April 1964.