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Accession Processed in 1992

 

BIOGRAPHICAL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS: These materials, which include news clippings and biographical sketches, were originally interfiled with York's subject files. Arranged in chronological order.
The material entitled publicity and newspaper articles was originally maintained in a scrapbook format. The entire contents of these three albums of news clippings have been photocopied. The subseries on York's Lawrence Livermore employment pertains to his later years as a consultant, and do not span his years as Director (1952-1958).
Box 1, Folder 1-7

Publicity and news articles 1958 - 1990

Box 2, Folder 1

Biographical materials 1961 - 1973

Box 2, Folder 2

Livermore employment, consultant 1981 - 1986

 

DIARIES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) DIARIES: Appointment books, date books and wall calendars in chronological order. For some years there is an overlap between the date books and wall calendars. Otherwise, the materials are divided by format and size. "Post-its" were photocopied as found within the appointment books. The original post-it was discarded, and a photocopy of the original page with the post-it was inserted in the appropriate month. The earliest appointment books (1959-1961) document York's early years at the Pentagon.
 

Date books

Box 2, Folder 3-5

1959 - 1961

Box 3, Folder 1-2

1962 - 1963

Box 3, Folder 3-6

1966 - 1969

Box 3, Folder 7-8

1973 - 1974

Box 3, Folder 9-11

1977, 1979 - 1980

Box 4, Folder 1-8

1981 - 1988

Box 4, Folder 9, Oversize FB-085-01-10

Wall calendars 1964-1970, 1975-1976, 1980

 

INVITATIONS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) INVITATIONS: Arranged in chronological order. Materials dating from 1959-1960 cover York's early years in Washington, and reflect the social and professional circles with which he mingled. These materials are preserved in their original scrapbook format. Invitations from 1970-1973 were originally interfiled with subject folders.
Box 4, Folder 10, Oversize FB-086-01

1959 - 1961

Box 4, Folder 11-12

1969 - 1973

 

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) CORRESPONDENCE: Miscellaneous correspondence, Chronological files, and Personal correspondence filed in original reverse chronological order. Indexes precede the correspondence for the Chronological files for 1973 and 1974. This series includes committee agendas, drafts of papers, news articles, nominations, papers, professional correspondence, recommendations, reviews, requests and permissions, and travel plans. Bulk dates for correspondence are between 1970 and 1986. This series does not include York's correspondence as an administrator for the U.S. Government or for UC San Diego.
These files comprise the largest and most comprehensive series, and heavily document communications between York and scientists (including Frank Barnaby, Hans Bethe, Harold Brown, Bernard Feld, James Killian, George Kistiakowsky, Oskar Morgenstern, Jack Ruina, Jerome Weisner, Victor Weisskopf), and to a lesser extent, his correspondence with public and political figures (President Carter, Henry Kissinger, Charles Lindbergh, Philip Noel-Baker, [Herbert] Pete Scoville, Senators Cranston, Gore, and Kennedy, and Lord Solly Zuckerman). York's correspondence with his science colleagues spans many years and topics. York's correspondence with political figures largely pertains to appreciation and encouragement for his support of particular legislative issues.
York's views on past events and contemporary issues concerning arms control, disarmament problems, and science and defense policy, may be grasped through this series. The correspondences sometimes contain detailed responses to topics such as Eisenhower and SAINT (the satellite interceptor system), the beginnings of NASA, missile development, MIRV, the Mike explosion, U-2, B-1, "no first use," the Comprehensive Test Ban talks, and the MX missile system. Through his correspondence and subsequent writings, York seeks to understand the technological arms developments and deployment; the major decisions, the decision makers, the advice, and the advisors. Then, in retrospect, York analyzes the arms race and approaches arms control problems.
Additionally, much of the correspondence concerns recollections about specific events which York later incorporated into his memoirs and writings. York routinely submitted drafts of his writings to his colleagues for historical accuracy and fairness, and sought the assistance of various historians (at institutions such as Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore, NASA, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Atomic Energy Commission, Department of State, and Bancroft Library). The bulk of this correspondence is from the 1970s, after the publication of Race to Oblivion, and prior to his 1987 memoir, Making Weapons, Talking Peace. In a 1976 letter to Cargill Hall at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, York states that the source for RACE TO OBLIVION was largely his memory, and that he made greater use of documentation for Making Weapons, Talking Peace (see box 11).
Other items within the series include a declassified 1959 "Saturn chronology" which York annotated for NASA in 1974 (box 8); York's 1974 recollection about LBJ's expectations of the Presidential Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), and Johnson's eventual loss of faith in PSAC (box 8); 1975 SALT talks (boxes 9 and 10); York's comments and xerox of a declassified 1943 letter from Robert Oppenheimer to Enrico Fermi, at Los Alamos, about the use of radiological warfare (1983, see box 20); a 1984 series of recollections by York, Edward Teller, and Emil Konopinski, in regard to their conversation with Fermi when he asked, "Where is everybody?" (This famous question was central to debates about the prevalence of extra-terrestrial civilization. See box 22); and a 1976 letter to Harold Brown describing York's current stance on JASON and his appearance on Nixon's "Enemies List."
The materials within this series contain the bulk of York's correspondence, but some correspondence may be found in other series, particularly the SUBJECT and the ORGANIZATIONS series.
 

Miscellaneous correspondence

Box 4, Folder 13-15

1961 - 1964

Box 5, Folder 1-2

1964

 

Chronological files

Box 5, Folder 3-7

1964 - 1968

Box 5, Folder 8-9

1973

Box 6, Folder 1-9

1973 - 1974

Box 7, Folder 1-9

1974 - 1975

Box 8, Folder 1-8

1975 - 1976

Box 9, Folder 1-8

1976

Box 10, Folder 1-8

1976 - 1977

Box 11, Folder 1-11

1977

Box 12, Folder 1-7

1977 - 1978

Box 13, Folder 1-7

1978 - 1980

Box 14, Folder 1-7

1980 - 1981

Box 15, Folder 1-8

1981 - 1982

Box 16, Folder 1-6

1982 - 1983

Box 17, Folder 1-7

1983

Box 18, Folder 1-8

1983 - 1984

Box 19, Folder 1-6

1984 - 1985

Box 20, Folder 1-6

1985

Box 21, Folder 1-8

1985 - 1986

Box 22, Folder 1-6

1986

Box 23, Folder 1

1986

 

Personal correspondence

Box 23, Folder 2

1969

Box 23, Folder 3

Incoming log 1970 - 1972

Box 23, Folder 4-8

1970 - 1971

Box 24, Folder 1-7

1971 - 1972

Box 24, Folder 8-9

Book/article correspondence 1969 - 1971

 

ORGANIZATIONS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) ORGANIZATIONS: The files comprising the ORGANIZATIONS series were originally arranged in alphabetical order (and interfiled with the files which now comprise the SUBJECT series); they largely consist of reports and administrative memos. Files culled for this series pertain to York's affiliation with and service for various private and governmental agencies, organizations, and councils at the national and international level. This series contains files which York maintained during his participation in the U.S. Arms Controls and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), or as trustee or member of the board. Files on organizations for which York was solicited but did not serve are in the SUBJECT series.
Of particular note is the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) subseries which contains an unpublished history of the agency, "The Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1958-1974." Files on the Aerospace Corporation and the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) contain mostly memos of meetings and reports to trustees. The PSAC files, comprised mainly of reports, represent York's second service under President Johnson, from 1964-1968. The Pugwash files contain reports, correspondence, and agendas for meetings which York did and did not attend.
 

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)

Box 25, Folder 1

Miscellaneous 1958

Box 25, Folder 2

AGILE 1967

Box 25, Folder 3-7

"The Advanced Research Projects Agency, 1958-1974" - History prepared by Richard J. Barber Associates 1975

 

Aerospace Corporation, Board of Trustees

Box 25, Folder 8-9

1971 - 1972

Box 25, Folder 10

1975 - 1978

Box 26, Folder 1

1978

Box 26, Folder 2

1980

Box 26, Folder 3-9

1982 - 1987

Box 26, Folder 10

American Committee on East-West Accord 1977 - 1981

General note

Formerly American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations.
Box 27, Folder 1

American Committee on U.S. - Soviet Relations 1975 - 1977

Box 27, Folder 2

Arms Control Association 1974 - 1978

 

Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (U.S. ACDA)

Box 27, Folder 3-6

Correspondence 1961 - 1971

Box 28, Folder 1

Dyna-Soar contract cancellation 1965

Box 28, Folder 2

Establishment of, including briefing book 1961 - 1962

Box 28, Folder 3

General Advisory Committee - Draft agenda 1961 - 1964

Box 28, Folder 4-5

Meetings, Washington, D.C. 1961 - 1963

Box 28, Folder 6

Status report 1963 - 1965

Box 29, Folder 1

Status report 1963 - 1965

 

Test Ban Treaty

Box 29, Folder 2-3

Testimony of others 1963

Box 29, Folder 4

York's testimony on treaty 1963

Box 29, Folder 5

Treaty materials 1978 - 1979

 

Atomic Energy Commission

Box 29, Folder 6-7

Releases 1964 - 1969

Box 30, Folder 1

Releases 1970

Box 30, Folder 2

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist 1981 - 1989

Box 30, Folder 3

Committee for National Security (CNS) 1981 - 1990

 

Defense Science Board

Box 30, Folder 4

Cruise Missiles August 1977

Box 30, Folder 5

MX-Summer Study August 1977

Box 30, Folder 6-7

Membership 1977 - 1981

Box 30, Folder 8

Near-Earth Resources August 1977

Box 30, Folder 9-10

Federation of American Scientists 1973 - 1987

 

Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)

Box 31, Folder 1-2

JASON 1970 - 1973

Box 31, Folder 3-6

Board of Trustees 1982, 1984-1986

Box 32, Folder 1-2

Board of Trustees 1987 - 1991

Box 32, Folder 3

Young Scientists' Program 1985

Box 32, Folder 4

KPBS Humanities Advisory Council

 

National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

Box 32, Folder 5

Sino-American Joint Committee for Science Cooperation 1976 - 1977

Box 32, Folder 6-8

Committee on International Relations 1980 - 1982

Box 33, Folder 1

Committee on International Relations 1983 - 1984

Box 33, Folder 2-4

Meetings of the Advisory Committee on USSR and Eastern Europe 1982 - 1983

 

Office of Science and Technology (OST)

Box 33, Folder 5

Ad Hoc Panel on Meson Factories 1964

Box 33, Folder 6

Committee on Scientific and Technical Information (COSATI) 1965

Box 33, Folder 7-8

Federal Council for Science and Technology 1964 - 1967

Box 34, Folder 1

Geographic distribution of R and D funds 1964

Box 34, Folder 2

Report to the President 1964

Box 34, Folder 3

Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress) 1976 - 1978

Box 34, Folder 4

Peace Act Advisory Council 1970

Box 34, Folder 5

President's Commission on Military Compensation (Chairman: Charles Zwick) 1977 - 1978

 

President's Science and Advisory Committee

Box 34, Folder 6

Agendas 1964 - 1967

Box 34, Folder 7

Appointment 1964

Box 34, Folder 8

Re: Classified material 1962 - 1963

Box 34, Folder 9

Employment papers 1962 - 1966

Box 35, Folder 1

General correspondence 1965 - 1968

Box 35, Folder 2

International Affairs 1965 - 1966

Box 35, Folder 3

International Technical Cooperation and Assistance Panel (ITCAP) 1967 - 1969

Box 35, Folder 4-5

Membership and consultants lists 1963 - 1967

Box 35, Folder 6

Notes 1965

 

Panels

Box 35, Folder 7

Agriculture 1964 - 1965

Box 35, Folder 8

Assignments 1965 - 1966

Box 35, Folder 9

Biology 1965

Box 35, Folder 10

Cotton Insects 1964 - 1965

Box 35, Folder 11

Federal Organization for Science 1964 - 1965

Box 35, Folder 12-13

Federal Support of Research 1961 - 1965

Box 36, Folder 1

"Federal Water Resources Research, a 10-Year Program..." 1965

Box 36, Folder 2

Government as a Consumer (York Panel) 1964 - 1965

Box 36, Folder 3

High Energy Physics 1964

Box 36, Folder 4-5

Manpower panel 1964 - 1965

Box 36, Folder 6

NASA 1965

Box 36, Folder 7

Piori Panel -- U.S. Government Laboratories 1962 - 1966

Box 37, Folder 1

Piori Panel -- U.S. Government Laboratories

Box 37, Folder 2

Population control (Birth control) 1964

Box 37, Folder 3

Science and foreign affairs 1964 - 1965

Box 37, Folder 4

Reports on Defense Laboratories 1964

 

Pugwash

Box 37, Folder 5

Prior to 1968

Box 37, Folder 6

Sochi 1969

Box 37, Folder 7

1970-1972

Box 37, Folder 8

Lahti, working papers 1971

Box 37, Folder 9

Continuing Committee 1972

Box 38, Folder 1

Oxford 1972

Box 38, Folder 2-3

1973-1974

Box 38, Folder 4

Baden 1974

Box 38, Folder 5

Cracow 1974

Box 38, Folder 6

Geneva 1974

Box 38, Folder 7

Helsinki 1974

Box 38, Folder 8

1975

Box 38, Folder 9

Budapest 1975

Box 38, Folder 10

Cairo 1975

Box 38, Folder 11

Dubrovnik 1975

Box 38, Folder 12

Kyoto 1975

Box 38, Folder 13

Moscow 1975

Box 38, Folder 14

Stockholm 1975

Box 38, Folder 15-16

1976-1979

Box 39, Folder 1-2

1979-1988

Box 39, Folder 3

Scientists' Institute for Public Information 1975 - 1977

 

SUBJECT FILES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) SUBJECT FILES: Arranged in original alphabetical order. Includes reports and correspondence. Some files were culled and placed in the ORGANIZATIONS series. Miscellaneous material was incorporated into this series.
The subseries on the Antiballistic Missile (ABM) contains extensive coverage of York's role and 1969 congressional testimonies, through reports, news articles, and correspondence. The subseries on Conferences includes meetings for which York was a delegate or committee member, such as the 1982 University of California conference on International Security and Arms Control.
 

Antiballistic Missile (ABM)

 

Controversy

Box 39, Folder 4

Articles 1969 - 1970

Box 39, Folder 5

Press releases 1969 - 1970

Box 39, Folder 6

News articles 1969 - 1970

Box 39, Folder 7

News conference and speeches 1969 - 1970

Box 39, Folder 8

Statements 1969 - 1970

Box 40, Folder 1-3

Correspondence 1969

Box 40, Folder 4-5

Testimony 1969, 1984-1987

Box 40, Folder 6

Testimony: Bengelsdorf (original article) 1969

Box 40, Folder 7

Testimony: Correspondence 1969, 1986

Box 40, Folder 8

Testimony: News Articles 1968 - 1987

Box 40, Folder 9

Testimony: Press Releases 1969

Box 40, Folder 10

Testimony: Press Conference, Interviews, and Discussion 1969

Box 41, Folder 1-2

Testimony 1969, 1984-1987

Box 41, Folder 3-4

Arms Control 1976

Box 41, Folder 5

Arms Control Compliance 1982

Box 41, Folder 6

Californians for a Bilateral Nuclear Arms Freeze 1981

Box 41, Folder 7

Civil Defense undated

 

Conferences

Box 41, Folder 8

Moscow, Soviet-American Disarmament Seminar (SADS) of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Committee on International Studies of Arms Control 1975

Box 41, Folder 9

PACEM IN TERRIS IV, Washington, D.C. 1975

Box 41, Folder 10

XI Dartmouth Meeting, Jurmala, USSR 1977

Box 41, Folder 11

Pontifical Academy of Sciences 1980

 

International Security and Arms Control, UCLA 1982

Box 42, Folder 1

Correspondence 1982

Box 42, Folder 2

Correspondence with Saxon 1982

Box 42, Folder 3

Expressions of interest by others 1982

Box 42, Folder 4

Money and costs 1982

Box 42, Folder 5

Papers, participants and programs 1982

Box 42, Folder 6-7

Proposal for programs 1981 - 1982

Box 42, Folder 8

Ross (Leonard) and Rocklin (Eugene) 1982

Box 42, Folder 9

Speakers 1982

Box 42, Folder 10

University Committees on Programs in IS and AC 1982

Box 42, Folder 11

Exploratory Meeting on the Nuclear Deadlock, Pocantico, NY 1983

Box 42, Folder 12

California Conference 1984

Box 42, Folder 13

Defense Intelligence Agency 1964 - 1965

Box 43, Folder 1

Defense R & D Laboratories 1961 - 1964

Box 43, Folder 2

Gayler, Noel 1981

Box 43, Folder 3

Glenn, John 1983 - 1988

Box 43, Folder 4-6

Government reports 1962 - 1964, 1966

Box 43, Folder 7

Ground Zero 1981

Box 43, Folder 8

National Committee on U.S./China Relations 1983

Box 44, Folder 1

Of Men and Missiles: Jimmy Carter and the Bomb by Tom Jackson 1976

Box 44, Folder 2-3, Oversize FB-086-02

Operation Greenhouse - Photo album 1950

Box 44, Folder 4

Ottinger, Congressman Richard L. 1975

Box 44, Folder 5

Report on Government Research 1965 - 1966

Box 44, Folder 6

Universidad Autonoma de Baja California 1965 - 1966

Box 44, Folder 7

Western Behavioral Sciences Institute 1984

 

UC SAN DIEGO

Scope and Content of Series

Series 7: UC SAN DIEGO: Files generated while was at UCSD, but they are not comprehensive. The files, containing mostly reports and teaching materials, represent York's activities and roles as professor, chancellor, acting chancellor, dean, and his directorships of Science, Technology, and Public Affairs, and of the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation. These files are organized in alphabetical order. Note that while the CORRESPONDENCE series comprises materials generated from these offices, York's administrative papers from these offices are not represented in this collection.
The subseries on Teaching includes syllabi, exams, homework, and lecture notes. Student grades were discarded.
 

General

Box 44, Folder 8

Academic Plan Phase II 1957 - 1982

Box 44, Folder 9

Academic Senate - Assembly 1973 - 1987

Box 44, Folder 10-11

California Universities Council on Space Sciences (CUCOSS) 1961 - 1965

Box 45, Folder 1-5

California Universities Council on Space Sciences (CUCOSS) 1961 - 1965

 

Education Abroad Program (EAP)

Box 46, Folder 1

Academic adviser's manual 1977 - 1978

Box 46, Folder 2

Academic offerings at study centers 1975 - 1980

Box 46, Folder 3

Annual reports 1976 - 1977

Box 46, Folder 4-5

Current business 1975 - 1978

Box 46, Folder 6

Institute on International Security and Arms Control 1982

 

Teaching

Box 46, Folder 7

News clipping project ca. 1957 - 1959

Box 46, Folder 8

Frontiers of Science 104 1969 - 1970

Box 46, Folder 9

Contemporary Issues 100 1973

Box 46, Folder 10

Freshman Seminars, Physics 1973

Box 46, Folder 11

Frontiers of Science 104 1973

Box 47, Folder 1

Frontiers of Science 119 1973

Box 47, Folder 2

Frontiers of Science 104 1974

Box 47, Folder 3

Frontiers of Science X400 1974

Box 47, Folder 4

STPA 100A, World Space Program 1974

Box 47, Folder 5

Course by Newspaper 1975

Box 47, Folder 6

Frontiers of Science 124 1975

Box 47, Folder 7

Physics 3C 1975

Box 47, Folder 8-9

STPA 101A FOS 104 - Arms and Arms Control 1975

Box 47, Folder 10

STPA /PS 105A - Technology and Society 1975

Box 47, Folder 11

STPA 197 1975

Box 47, Folder 12

Frontiers of Science 125 1976

Box 47, Folder 13

Physics 3C 1976

Box 47, Folder 14

PS Senior Seminar 1976

Box 47, Folder 15

STPA 105B 1976

Box 48, Folder 1

STPA 100A - World Space Program 1977

Box 48, Folder 2

STPA/PS 170 1978

Box 48, Folder 3

STPA 199 - Muir Special Projects 1978 - 1979

Box 48, Folder 4

PS 170 1979

Box 48, Folder 5

STPA/PS 105A - Technology and Society 1980

Box 48, Folder 6

STPA 101A/FS 104 1981

Box 48, Folder 7

STPA/PS 105B 1981

Box 48, Folder 8

STPA/PS 117 1981

Box 48, Folder 9

STPA/PS 171 1981

Box 48, Folder 10

STPA/PS 100A/FS 100 1982

Box 48, Folder 11

STPA/PS 105B 1982

Box 48, Folder 12

STPA/PS 142C Papers 1982

Box 48, Folder 13

HSS 8025 Oral Thesis 1983

Box 48, Folder 14

STPA 105B/PS 162AB 1983

Box 48, Folder 15

STPA/PS 142C 1983

 

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 8) WRITINGS: Lectures, prepared remarks, speeches, transcripts of congressional testimony, interviews, manuscripts and drafts of papers and books, and other writings and oral presentations by York, arranged by date. The bulk of the material comprises drafts and manuscripts of York's books, Race to Oblivion, The Advisors and Making Weapons, Talking Peace.In 1980, York was interviewed by the Navy Laboratories about his "Past and Present Views of Military Research and Development." York's interview with Karyn Gladstone, in 1987, formed part of her Ph.D. work in which she did a psychological analysis of ten men and their attitudes to nuclear weapons. In 1986, York was interviewed by historian Finn Aaserud about American physicists in science policy after World War II. York answers questions about physicists' involvement in science policy, and JASON is used as a case study.
Box 48, Folder 16

University of San Diego College for Men - Graduation speech 1964

Box 48, Folder 17

ABM Debate and Beyond - Original version 1969

 

Race to Oblivion - Working title, "The Ultimate Absurdity: A Personal View of the Arms Race"

Box 48, Folder 18

Revisions, prologues, chapters I-VIII 1967 - 1987

Box 49, Folder 1

Revisions, chapters IX-Glossary 1969 - 1987

Box 49, Folder 2

Correspondence 1984 - 1987

 

York Testimonies

Box 49, Folder 3

Before the Subcommittee on International Organization and Disarmament Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations 1969

Box 49, Folder 4

Before the Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Law and the Organization of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - Correspondence and transcript 1970

Box 49, Folder 5

For the Senate Armed Services Committee (ABM) 1971 - 1971

 

Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller and the Superbomb

Box 49, Folder 6

Text 1974 - 1987

Box 49, Folder 7

Revisions, pages 1-94 1974 - 1987

Box 49, Folder 8

Revisions, pages 95-203 1974 - 1987

Box 49, Folder 9

Correspondence 1987

Box 50, Folder 1

California seminar 1978

Box 50, Folder 2

Interview - Past and Present Views of Military Research and Development 1980

 

Making Weapons, Talking Peace: A Physicist's Odyssey from Hiroshima to Geneva

Box 50, Folder 3-4

Includes outline, correspondence, photos & chapters III - V 1985 - 1986

Box 50, Folder 5-6

Chapters VI - VIII 1985 - 1986

Box 51, Folder 1

Chapters VI - VIII 1985 - 1986

Box 51, Folder 2-5

Early draft 1986

Box 52, Folder 1-4

Middle draft 1986

Box 52, Folder 5

Final draft 1986

Box 53, Folder 1-3

Final draft 1986

Box 53, Folder 4

Interview by Finn Aaserud on American physicists in science policy after WWII 1986

Box 53, Folder 5-6

Unfolding of the Nuclear Age: A Psychohistorical Investigation into the Lives of Ten Men, interview with Karyn Gladstone 1987

 

AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 9) AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS: Non-manuscript materials in chronological order. Included are video tapes (3/4" and VHS formats) in which York appears or is interviewed.
In 1958, York was named as the first chief scientist to ARPA, and, in this capacity, appeared on the CBS show, Face the Nation. In the half hour interview York was questioned about space programs and the arms race with the Russians. In the 1984 "Quest for Peace" tape, York was interviewed about the problems posed by the nuclear arms race. During the first few minutes of the 1988 Tufts/Moscow "Global Classroom," some historical footage is introduced which depicts York. The 1991 series of unedited tapes at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University cover nuclear weapons and the arms race after World War II. York is interviewed along with Glenn Seaborg, Sigvar Ekland, Robert Marshak, Bernard Goldschmidt, and Gerald Tape.
Box 54, Folder 1

Face the Nation 1958

Box 54, Folder 2-3

Quest for Peace 1984

Box 55, Folder 1

Tufts/Moscow/Washington "Global Classroom" 1988

Box 55, Folder 2

Virginia and State 1991

 

Accession Processed in 2000

 

COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY NEGOTIATIONS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 10) COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY NEGOTIATIONS: Arranged alphabetically, using York's own folder titles. All the material had to be declassified and correspondence regarding declassification is located in the folders for the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the U.S. Department of Defense.
York was appointed as ambassador during the Carter administration and the files contain messages from Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown.
Box 56, Folder 1

Ad hoc working group meetings - Cable messages with meeting summaries and reports 1979 - 1980

Box 56, Folder 2

Anti-satellite satellite talks - Cable messages on ASAT First Round June 18, 1978

 

Background reading

Box 56, Folder 3

Book 1, sections 1, 3 & 4: "Important Background Papers, Recent Analytical Cables on Key Issues, and Recent Instructions." Typescripts and cables 1978

Box 56, Folder 4

Book 1, sections 5-9: "Important Negotiating Reports, Recent Plenary Reports, Important U.S. Plenary Statements, Important Soviet Plenary Statements, and Recent On-Site Inspections Working Group Meetings" 1978

Box 56, Folder 5

Book 2, sections 1 & 3-7: "Background Papers, Composite Treaty Text; On-Site Inspection Back-Up, National Seismic Station Back-Up, Review Conference, and CTB/Non-Proliferation." Typescripts and cables 1979

General note

[Sections 2 and 8 missing.]
Box 56, Folder 6

Book 3, sections 1-9: "Plenary Report, U.S. Plenary Statement, U.K. Plenary Statement, Consultations with the U.K., U.S., U.K. and U.S.S.R. Statements, Consultations, Plenary Report, Petrosyants Plenary Statement, and Agreed Understanding (U.S. Proposal)." Cables, Statements 1979

Box 56, Folder 7

British miscellaneous papers - Typescript of "Tripartite UK/US/Soviet Negotiations on a Comprehensive Test Ban" 1977

 

Cable messages

Box 56, Folder 8-9

Back Channel 1979 - 1980

Box 57, Folder 1-2

Incoming June 1979

Box 57, Folder 3

Committee on Disarmament, Reports to 1980

 

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Box 57, Folder 4

Soviet versions - Typescripts texts in Russian and cable messages 1978 - 1980

Box 57, Folder 5

United States versions - Typescripts and cable messages with updated English and Russian language versions through April 5th 1980

Box 57, Folder 6

Final Assessment of Round - Cable messages 1979

Box 57, Folder 7

Future Work Program - Cable messages 1979 - 1980

Box 57, Folder 8

Heads of Delegation Meetings - Cable messages 1980

Box 57, Folder 9

Instructions and Guidance, United States Department of State - Cables containing information and directives on miscellaneous negotiating issues 1979 - 1980

Box 57, Folder 10

Interim Assessments - Cable messages regarding negotiating rounds 1979 - 1980

Box 57, Folder 11

Linkage Between Trilateral and Multilateral Treaty - Cable messages October 1980

Box 57, Folder 12

Memoranda of conversations 1979 - 1980

Box 58, Folder 1

National Seismic Stations Negotiations - Cooperative program with the U.S.S.R. 1979 - 1980

 

National Seismic Stations Program

Box 58, Folder 2

Set of background material on NSS program. Includes typescript memoranda, reports and working papers 1977 - 1980

Box 58, Folder 3

Cable messages regarding NSS program 1977 - 1980

Box 58, Folder 4

Memoranda May - June 1979

Box 58, Folder 5

NATO Disarmament Experts Meeting: Guidance - Cable messages 1978 - 1980

Box 58, Folder 6

Negotiating with the Soviet Union - Cable message by Malcolm Toon 1979

Box 58, Folder 7

Non-Proliferation Implications of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty undated

Box 58, Folder 8

Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference - Cable messages and typescript text 1980

Box 58, Folder 9

North Atlantic Council Briefing on Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Negotiations - Typescript of the "Statement by Ambassador Herbert F. York, Head of the United States CTB Delegation, February 27." Includes cable text and York's schedule for visit of the U.S. Mission to NATO 1980

Box 58, Folder 10

Nuclear Test Ban - Typescript and cable messages 1980

Box 58, Folder 11

On-Site Inspection Working Group Meeting - Cable messages and a typescript, "Bocharov Statement, November, 1980"

Box 58, Folder 12

Plenary statements and reports of U.S. Delegation 1979 - 1980

Box 58, Folder 13

Plenary Statements, British - Typescripts and cable messages with reports from the U.K. delegation. Includes typescript "Statement by Mr. J.C. Edmonds at a Plenary Meeting on 1 April" 1979 - 1980

Box 58, Folder 14

Plenary Statements, Soviets - Cable texts and messages. Includes October 19 letter from Herbert York to A.M. Petrosyants, Soviet delegate to CTB negotiations 1979 - 1980

Box 58, Folder 15

Political Advisors Meetings - Cable messages 1979 - 1980

Box 58, Folder 16

Preamble - Cable and typescript texts of U.S. proposal for preamble 1980

Box 59, Folder 1

Security clearances - Typescript memorandum listing CTB delegation members' security clearance levels June 13, 1979

Box 59, Folder 2

Separate Verification Agreement, Article Three - Typescript and cable message 1979

Box 59, Folder 3

Smith, Gerard - Typescript letter to President James Carter from the coordinator of the Carter administration's non-proliferation efforts, drawing attention to lack of a comprehensive ban on nuclear weapons' testing December 21, 1978

Box 59, Folder 4

Soviet High Yield Testing - Typescript memoranda October 1979

Box 59, Folder 5

Soviet Members of Comprehensive Test Ban Delegation - Cable lists of names and official titles 1980

Box 59, Folder 6

Technical Annex - Typescripts of articles of treaty dealing with technical aspects 1978 - 1979

Box 59, Folder 7

United Nations General Assembly - Cable messages 1979

Box 59, Folder 8

United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency - Letters from Frederick Smith, Jr. to Rodney M. Grayson regarding declassification of documents February-March 1999

Box 59, Folder 9

United States Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense - Letters from H.J. McIntyre to Rodney M. Grayson regarding declassification of documents June 1977

 

Accession Processed in 2004

 

MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 11) MISCELLANEOUS MATERIALS. Arranged in five subseries: A) Biographical Materials, B) Interviews, C) Letters of Appointment, D) Awards, and E) Photographs.
A) Biographical Materials: Arranged alphabetically. Includes a biographical note and resume, photocopies of newspaper clippings with articles about York's work, and detailed security clearance questionnaires containing information about his employment, travel abroad, and residency.
B) Interviews: Arranged chronologically. Contains transcripts or published versions of interviews conducted between 1964 and 1994 and are concerned with York's views on past and contemporary issues dealing with arms control and disarmament problems.
C) Letters of Appointment: Documents York's involvement in high-level defense policy-making and contains appointment letters to the Presidential Scientific Advisory Committee for Lyndon Johnson and U.S. Ambassador to the Comprehensive Test Ban talks in 1979-1980.
D) Awards: Award certificates and citations and is arranged in alphabetical order by the title of the award.
E) Photographs: Arranged alphabetically, documents York's involvement in committee work at the White House, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Comprehensive Test Ban talks in Geneva.
 

Biographical Materials

Box 59, Folder 10

Biographical note and resume

Box 59, Folder 11

Newspaper clippings - Contains photocopies of articles about York's appointment as U.S. Ambassador to the Comprehensive Test Ban negotiations and his work at UCSD 1979 - 1982

 

Security clearance questionnaires

Box 59, Folder 12

1958 - 1970

Box 59, Folder 13

1973 - 1974

Box 59, Folder 14

1979 - 1994

 

Interviews

Box 59, Folder 15

Kennedy Library - Oral history project by Steven R. Rivkin June 16, 1964

Box 59, Folder 16

By Eugene M. Emme June 12, 1973

Box 59, Folder 17

First Tuesday - Program by Tom Pettit, NBC News August 6, 1973

Box 59, Folder 18

By Norton Ginsberg, "Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD): A Dialogue About Death" 1973

Box 59, Folder 19

By Paul Jacobs, "Neutron Bomb Claims Assailed By Arms Expert," published in the Los Angeles Times May 8, 1978

Box 59, Folder 20

By Tomosaburo Itirano, "N-Physicist Urges Steps For No First-Use Pledge," published in Soka Gakkai News December 1982

Box 60, Folder 1

By Sasha Futran, "Nuclear Arms Control: Where We've Been and What Works" - Contains tape with interview and interview outline November 19, 1984

Box 60, Folder 2

By Dr. Maurice Matloff November 15, 1985

Box 60, Folder 3

By Joseph K. Lyou January 29, 1987

Box 60, Folder 4

By Karyn Gladstone, "Five Men in the Establishment" March 21, 1987

Box 60, Folder 5

By Yanek Mieczkowski May 29, 1990

Box 60, Folder 6

By Dr. John Pendleton, "Dangerous Years" October 2, 1991

 

Letters of Appointment

Box 60, Folder 7

Acting Secretary of Defense - Letter of appointment 1961

Box 60, Folder 8

President's Science Advisory Committee - Invitation to become a member of an advisory group for Lyndon Johnson November 23, 1964

 

U.S. Ambassador - Letter of nomination to the rank of Ambassador to the Comprehensive Test Ban Negotiations

Box 60, Folder 9

February 2, 1979

Box 60, Folder 10, Oversize FB-420-05

June 21, 1979

Box 60, Folder 11

September 19, 1979

Box 60, Folder 12

U.S. Representative to the Comprehensive Test Ban Negotiations - Letter of resignation February 24, 1981

 

Awards

Box 60, Folder 13

Defense Science Board Certificate of Appreciation 1978

Box 60, Folder 14

Forum on Physics and Society Award 1976

Box 60, Folder 15

Journal of the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Public Service Award 1993

Box 60, Folder 16, Oversize FB-420-06

United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Honor Award 1981

 

Photographs

Box 60, Folder 17

Portraits of York undated

Box 60, Folder 18

York at ACDA/GDC (General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament) meeting at the White House 1962

Box 60, Folder 19

York at "Blue Ribbon Panel" on Military Salaries and Retirement with President Jimmy Carter, Harold Brown, ... 1977

Box 60, Folder 20

York at the University of California Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory undated

Box 60, Folder 21

York at U.C. President's Science and Academic Advisory Committee meeting in Livermore 1986

Box 60, Folder 22

York visiting Palmdale December 12, 1975

Box 60, Folder 23

York visiting USSR June 25-30, 1979

Box 60, Folder 24

York with Roger E. Basel, Director of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory 1979

Box 60, Folder 25

York with Peter Kapitza in his Moscow apartment 1975

Box 60, Folder 26

York with Bill Nierenberg in Geneva 1978

Box 60, Folder 27

York with Steve Sterner 1979

Box 60, Folder 28

York with three former UCSD Chancellors William D. McElroy, Dr. John S. Galbraith, and Dr. William J. McGill undated

Box 60, Folder 29

York with U.S. Negotiating Team in Geneva 1979

Box 60, Folder 30

York with others undated

Box 60, Folder 31

Johnson, Gerald 1979

Box 60, Folder 32

I. I. Rabi at Sea World 1977

 

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 12) CORRESPONDENCE: This series primarily documents York's professional activities and contains communications between York and his science colleagues, as well as public and political figures. Arranged in four subseries: A) Chronological Files, B) Personal Correspondence, C) Alphabetical Files, and D) Letters of Recommendation.
A) Chronological Files: Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence from York's office at UCSD at the end of his tenure as director of UCSD's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. The correspondence files span the years of 1987-1992 and include communications between York and his science colleagues, as well as publishers, media people, and government administrators.
B) Personal Correspondence: York's personal correspondence while he served as U.S. Ambassador to the Comprehensive Test Ban talks in Geneva. The series is arranged in chronological order and comprised of letters between York and his friends, colleagues, and cordial correspondence during the years of 1979-1980.
C) Alphabetical Files: Arranged in alphabetical order by personal or corporate name. Contains correspondence between York and publishers, science colleagues, and academic institutions. The subseries includes paper drafts, reprints, and brochures on issues concerned with arms control, disarmament problems, and U.S. science and defense policy. The files contain materials for the years of 1951-1994 and include papers and letters from Richard L. Garwin, Hugh DeWitt, and Daniel Ellsberg, materials related to the opening of the Carter Center, and correspondence, memorandums, and booklets discussing the University of California Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.
D) Letters of Recommendation: Letters of recommendations written by York. These letters are restricted until 2050.
 

Chronological Files

Box 60, Folder 33-34

1987, January - February

Box 61, Folder 1-6

1987, March - July

Box 62, Folder 1-5

1987, August - December

Box 62, Folder 6

1988, January

Box 63, Folder 1-7

1988, February - August

Box 64, Folder 1-7

1988, August - 1989, August

Box 65, Folder 1

1989, September - December

Box 65, Folder 2

1990

Box 65, Folder 3-4

1991, January - December

Box 65, Folder 5

1992, February - December

 

Personal Correspondence

Box 65, Folder 6

1979, February

Box 66, Folder 1-3

1979, March - November, 1980

 

Alphabetical Files

Box 66, Folder 4

American Physical Society - American Institute of Physics Masters of Modern Physics Booksellers 1993

Box 66, Folder 5

Bancroft Library: History of Science and Technology Program 1982

Box 66, Folder 6

Carter Center 1984

Box 66, Folder 7

Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions 1973 - 1981

Box 66, Folder 8

DeWitt, Hugh 1982 - 1986

Box 66, Folder 9

Ellsberg, Daniel 1992

Box 66, Folder 10

W.H. Freeman and Company Publishers 1973 - 1988

Box 66, Folder 11

Garwin, Richard L. 1978 - 1992

Box 67, Folder 1-3

Garwin, Richard L. 1978 - 1992

Box 67, Folder 4

Guggenheim Fellowship 1971 - 1972

Box 67, Folder 5-6

Lawrence Livermore Laboratory 1951 - 1994

Box 68, Folder 1

Princeton University Press 1972

Box 68, Folder 2

Stanford University Press 1988 - 1991

Box 68, Folder 3

UCSD Physics Department 1975 - 1979

 

Letters of Recommendation

Box 68, Folder 4

1979 - 1990

Restrictions

Restrictions Apply
 

ORGANIZATIONS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 13) ORGANIZATIONS: Arranged in alphabetical order. Documents York's affiliation with and service to various private and governmental agencies, organizations, councils, and committees at the national and international level. The files contain correspondence, brochures, reports, minutes, meeting summaries, announcements, and photocopies of newspaper clippings. The files were originally interfiled with materials which now comprise the SUBJECT FILES series and separated to distinguish them from files on organizations for which York did not serve.
Box 68, Folder 5

American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1991 - 1992

 

American Association for Advancement of Science

Box 68, Folder 6

Minutes, reports, and correspondence 1976 - 1985

Box 68, Folder 7

Committee on Science, Arms Control, and National Security - Contains a list of committee members and a letter 1987

Box 68, Folder 8

American Physical Society - Correspondence and reviews of Modern Physics 1982 - 1987

Box 68, Folder 9

Blue Ribbon Defense Panel 1969 - 1971

Box 68, Folder 10

Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government - Includes reports "Science and Technology and President" and "New Thinking and American Defense Technology" 1988 - 1990

Box 68, Folder 11

Defense Science Study Group

Box 68, Folder 12

Center on Violence and Human Survival 1987

Box 68, Folder 13

Cole Committee on the Use of Atomic Energy in Continental Defense 1954

Box 68, Folder 14

Council for a Livable World 1987 - 1988

Box 69, Folder 1

Federation of American Scientists 1970

Box 69, Folder 2

Gerberding Committee (William P. Gerberding, Chancellor of the University of Illinois) - Includes transcript of January 8, 1979, hearing regarding Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory 1978 - 1979

Box 69, Folder 3

Greyhavens Institute 1989

Box 69, Folder 4

International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) 1969 - 1984

Box 69, Folder 5

International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO) 1974 - 1988

Box 69, Folder 6

Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society 1975

Box 69, Folder 7

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars 1978 - 1979

Oversize MC-006, Folder 03

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars, 1978 - 1979

Languages: English.

General

Broadside announcing York's lecture "National Security and Arms Control" at Dartmouth College on October 23, 1978.
Box 69, Folder 8-10

Scientific Advisory Committee on the Los Alamos and the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories 1976 - 1981

Box 70, Folder 1

Scientific Advisory Committee on the Los Alamos and the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories 1976 - 1981

Box 70, Folder 2-7

Scientific Advisory Committee to the President and the Regents of the University of California 1986 - 1992

Box 70, Folder 8

Sigma XI - Scientific Research of North America 1974 - 1975

Box 70, Folder 9

SIPRI - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute 1973

Box 70, Folder 10

Social Science Research Council 1984 - 1985

Box 70, Folder 11

UCSD International Cooperation in Research and Education Committee - Includes proposal to establish a program for international cooperation between UCSD and former Soviet Union academic institutions 1992

 

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 14) WRITINGS: Supplements writings found in the first accession. Arranged in two subseries: A) Books, Articles, Statements, Speeches, and Reviews; and B) Notes.
A) Books, Articles, Statements, Speeches, and Reviews: Arranged in chronological order. Contains manuscripts, typescripts, reprints, page proofs, and correspondence related to York's published works, congressional testimony and statements, and speeches. The bulk of material comprises typescripts and reprints of York's articles, as well as correspondence and book reviews for two of his books - Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller and the Superbomb and Making Weapons, Talking Peace: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to Geneva.
B) Notes: Arranged in alphabetical order, and mainly contains preparatory notes for his speeches.
 

Books, Articles, Statements, Speeches, and Reviews

Box 71, Folder 1

List of publications 1989

Box 71, Folder 2

Statement of Dr. Herbert York, Chancellor, UCSD, before the Committee on Foreign Relations U.S. Senate August 14-16, 1961

Box 71, Folder 3

National Security and the Nuclear-Test Ban October 1964

Box 71, Folder 4

Commencement address, San Diego Evening College June 12, 1968

Box 71, Folder 5

Statement Before the Subcommittee On International Organizations and Disarmament Affairs Of the Senate... March 1969

Box 71, Folder 6

Statement Before the Senate Armed Services Committee April 22-23, 1969

Box 71, Folder 7

Statement Before House Of Representatives Committee On Appropriations, Subcommittee On Defense Appropriations June 9, 1969

Box 71, Folder 8

Arms Race and the Fallacy Of the Last Move June 1969

Box 71, Folder 9

Statement Before Senate Foreign Relations Committee July 16, 1969

Box 71, Folder 10

Military Technology and National Security August 1969

Box 71, Folder 11

Race to Oblivion: A Participant's View of the Arms Race - Contains photocopies of book reviews 1969

Box 71, Folder 12

Personal View Of the Arms Race March 1970

Box 71, Folder 13

Statement Before the Subcommittee On Arms Control, International Law and Organization Of the Senate Foreign... April 8, 1970

Box 71, Folder 14

ABM, MIRV, and the Arms Race July 17, 1970

Box 71, Folder 15

We Can Reverse the Arms Race: A 10-Point Plan December 11, 1970

Box 71, Folder 16

American Physical Society - Speech 1971

Box 71, Folder 17

UCSD commencement address June 13, 1971

Box 71, Folder 18

CETYS, Baja California - Speech with drafts in English and Spanish October 8, 1971

Box 71, Folder 19

Technical Exaggeration May 26, 1972

Box 71, Folder 20

On the Proper Allocation Of the Cost Of the Military Establishment June 30, 1972

Box 71, Folder 21

Some Possible Measures For Slowing the Qualitative Arms Race - Typescript of talk given at Pugwash Conference in Oxford July 27, 1972

Box 71, Folder 22

Nuclear Arms Control: A Review, presented at Helsinki Seminar on disarmament issues August 1, 1972

Box 71, Folder 23

Comments on "Safeguarding Arms Control Agreements Limiting Strategic Weapons" - Draft prepared by Arms Control and Foreign Policy Seminar, working group on Arms Control Negotiations November 8, 1972

Box 71, Folder 24

Great Test-Ban Debate November 1972

Box 71, Folder 25

SALT I and the Future Of Arms Control and Disarmament May 1973

Box 71, Folder 26

Proposal For a Saner Deterrent June 4, 1973

Box 72, Folder 1

On the Tenth Anniversary Of the Limited Test Ban Treaty July 6, 1973

Box 72, Folder 2

10 Years After the Treaty, the Danger From Nuclear Testing Is Fading Away 1973

Box 72, Folder 3-5

Origins Of MIRV 1973

Box 72, Folder 6

Deterrence By Means Of Mass Destruction - Address presented at Pacem in Terris, National Convocation to Consider New Opportunities For the United States Foreign Policy September 6, 1973

Box 72, Folder 7

Multiple-Warhead Missiles November 1973

Box 72, Folder 8

Arms Control 1973

Box 72, Folder 9

Reducing the Overkill 1974

Box 72, Folder 10

Claremont Graduate School Commencement Address June 8, 1974

Box 72, Folder 11

Present Nuclear Strategy and Some Alternatives to It June 10, 1974

Box 72, Folder 12

Strategic Arms Race Slowdown Through Test Limitations August 2, 1974

Box 72, Folder 13

Vladivostok and the Arms Race January 23, 1975

Box 72, Folder 14

Are Nuclear Command and Control Systems Fail-Safe? April 1975

Box 72, Folder 15

Earlier Attempts Of Nuclear Disarmament - Presented at Kyoto Symposium June 5, 1975

Box 72, Folder 16

Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapons: Are They Inevitably Linked? - Presented at the 1975 Nuclear Science Symposium September 22, 1975

Box 72, Folder 17

Origins Of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory September 1975

Box 72, Folder 18

Sakharov Earned Prize - And Applause October 13, 1975

Box 73, Folder 1

Debate Over the Hydrogen Bomb October 1975

Box 73, Folder 2

Origins Of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory November 1975

Box 73, Folder 3

Oppenheimer and the Superbomb - Presented at Symposium of the Division of Solid State Physics, Surface Structure December 1975

Box 73, Folder 4

Sounders Of the Alarm: Thirty Years Of Attempts to Bring the World to Grips With the Perpetual Menace to ... December 1975

Box 73, Folder 5

Nuclear Balance Of Terror in Europe 1975

 

Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb 1976

Box 73, Folder 6-8

Correspondence 1973 - 1976

Box 73, Folder 9

Contains draft with comments by Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense

Box 73, Folder 10

Reference materials

Box 74, Folder 1

Book reviews

Box 74, Folder 2

Ultimate Absurdity 1976

Box 74, Folder 3

Nation's Stake In Air and Space January 1976

Box 74, Folder 4

Uranium Enrichment, Nuclear Energy, and the Arms Race - Presented at Symposium of the Forum on Physics and Society Uranium Enrichment and Arms Control February 4, 1976

Box 74, Folder 5

Brief Review Of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and Attempts to Control It - Statement for the Government Operations Committee, U.S. Senate February 19, 1976

Box 74, Folder 6

Capping the Nuclear Bottle February 29, 1976

Box 74, Folder 7

Nuclear Proliferation - A Problem That Won't Go Away February 1976

Box 74, Folder 8

Statement Before the Committee On International Relations, House Of Representatives March 18, 1976

Box 74, Folder 9

Pacem In Terris IV 1976

Box 74, Folder 10

Review of Margaret Gowing's Independence and Deterrence May 1976

Box 74, Folder 11

Nuclear Proliferation: An Unhappy History 1976

Box 74, Folder 12

Big Threat From Little Bombs June 3, 1976

Box 74, Folder 13

Bellagio Conference Report June 20-27, 1976

Box 74, Folder 14

Arms Control Workshop, held at Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies September 30, 1976

Box 74, Folder 15

Review of Stanley A. Blumberg's Energy and Conflict: The Life and Times of Edward Teller October 29, 1976

Box 74, Folder 16

Technological Innovation: A Socio-Political Problem November 29, 1976

Box 74, Folder 17

Eisenhower's Other Warning January 1977

Box 74, Folder 18

Military Research and Development: A Postwar History January 1977

Box 74, Folder 19

Strategic Reconnaissance April 1977

Box 75, Folder 1

U.S. National Security, Congressional Conference May 11-12, 1977

Box 75, Folder 2

Dartmouth Eleven: A Soviet-American Dialogue July 9-13, 1977

Box 75, Folder 3

Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban - California Seminar on Arms Control and Foreign Policy May 2, 1978

Box 75, Folder 4

Special Merits Of Single RV Missile In a MAP System - Speech at Harvard University August 1978

Box 75, Folder 5

Multiple Aim Point Systems and Arms Control - California Seminar on Arms Control and Foreign Policy December 7, 1978

Box 75, Folder 6

Sakharov and the Nuclear Test Ban - Speech at conference Homage to Sakharov May 1-2, 1981

Box 75, Folder 7

Freeze Is Not a Joke March 19, 1982

Box 75, Folder 8

Beginning Nuclear Disarmament At the Bottom - Discussion March 30, 1982

Box 75, Folder 9

Vertical Proliferation December 1982

Box 75, Folder 10

Scientists As Advisors to Governments - Presented at UNESCO/Pugwash Symposium 1982

Box 75, Folder 11

American-Soviet Arms Control Negotiations - Presented at Nuclear Deadlock Conference in Pocantico, NY March 1983

Box 75, Folder 12

Arms-Limitation Strategies March 1983

Box 75, Folder 13

Thinking About the Nuclear Arms Race and Why It Is So Hard to Do Much About It - Presented at Dartmouth College and California Seminar on International Security and Foreign Policy April 27, 1983

Box 75, Folder 14

Beginning Nuclear Disarmament At the Bottom September 1983

Box 75, Folder 15

Bilateral Negotiations and the Arms Race October 1983

Box 75, Folder 16

Negotiating From the Bottom Up October 1983

Box 75, Folder 17

Nuclear "Balance of Terror" In Europe June 1984

Box 75, Folder 18

Current World Situation - Published in the Proceedings of the 34th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Bjorkliden, Sweden July 9-14, 1984

Box 75, Folder 19

Remarks on the Strategic Defense Initiative 1984

General

Includes excerpt from The Center Magazine (1984), quoting a statement on the common defense made in 1973 by York.
Box 75, Folder 20

Beginning Nuclear Disarmament At the Bottom 1984

Box 75, Folder 21

Nuclear Weapons Test Bans - Published in the Proceedings of the Livermore Arms Control Conference 1984

Box 75, Folder 22

Arms Control - The Ends and Means Issue 1985

Box 75, Folder 23

Nuclear Deterrence and the Military Uses Of Space 1985

Box 75, Folder 24

Strategic Defense: Lessons From History - Delivered at the Lamont Lecture Series at the Center For Science and International Affairs, Harvard University May 7, 1986

Box 75, Folder 25

Countdown On the Comprehensive Test Ban May 1986

Box 76, Folder 1

U.S. - Soviet Negotiations and the Arms Race: A Historical Review 1986

Box 76, Folder 2

Does Strategic Defense Breed Offense? 1987

Box 76, Folder 3-5

Making Weapons, Talking Peace: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to Geneva 1987

Box 76, Folder 6

Review of Roger M. Aders' "Forging the Atomic Shield: Excerpts From the Office Diary Of Gordon E. Dean" July 1988

Box 76, Folder 7

Post-World War II Science Advice - Talk at AAAS January 18, 1989

Box 76, Folder 8

Will Dust Dim the Luster Or Brilliant Pebbles July 21, 1989

Box 76, Folder 9

Shield in Space - Correspondence and photocopies of book reviews 1990

Box 76, Folder 10

"Remarks" About Minimum Deterrence January 25, 1991

Box 76, Folder 11

Statement before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology U.S. House of Representatives October 9, 1991

Box 76, Folder 12

Comments on Academician N. N. Moiseyev's Letter "A Unique Chance Not to Be Missed" - Published in Russian January 1992

Box 76, Folder 13

Review of Cardinal Choices by Gregg Herken 1992

Box 76, Folder 14

Nuclear Arms Race: The Past, Present Tools, and Future Possibilities - Speech at the Royal Swedish Academy December 2, 1992

Box 76, Folder 15

Review of N. Macrae's "John von Neumann: The Scientific Genius Who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game..." October 1993

Box 76, Folder 16

Science Based Stockpile Stewardship November 1994

Box 76, Folder 17

CTBT and Beyond 1994

Box 76, Folder 18

Experiments As a Substitute For Unrestricted Testing 1994

Box 76, Folder 19

Hydrotesting and Hydronuclear Testing March 29, 1995

Box 77, Folder 1

Alternative Futures For the Department Of Energy National Laboratories - Report of the Task Force on Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy National Laboratories February 1995

 

Notes

Box 77, Folder 2

Colloquium May 1974

Box 77, Folder 3

Atomic energy 1975

Box 77, Folder 4

Course by newspaper 1975

Box 77, Folder 5

Physicists and Arms Control 1975

Box 77, Folder 6

Star Wars - Notes for speech at Mershon Center, Ohio State University May 3, 1983

Box 77, Folder 7

Rice and Roschester speeches 1989

Box 77, Folder 8

ISODARCO talk - NW Future 1993

Box 77, Folder 9

Notes from a conversation with Shalheveth Freier, member of Israeli Pugwash Group April 4, 1996

Box 77, Folder 10

Administration Of Military R and D Since World War II - SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) paper undated

 

WRITINGS BY OTHERS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 15) WRITINGS BY OTHERS: Arranged alphabetically. Contains typescripts or reprints of articles concerned with arms control and disarmament, the history of nuclear weapons development, and science and defense policy.
Box 77, Folder 11

Alewife, R. W. and Bache, T. C. - Monitoring a Threshold Test Ban Treaty. Presentation to the American Geophysical Union Special Session on Verification of Nuclear Test Bans, Baltimore, Maryland June 2, 1983

Box 77, Folder 12

Alvarez, Luis - Hardball Physics

Box 77, Folder 13

Blessing, Lee - Walk In the Woods - Playscript concerned with Soviet-American relations 1986

Box 77, Folder 14

Badash, Lawrence - Contains following of his articles: Nuclear Fission: Reaction to the Discovery In 1939; Nuclear Physics In Rutherford's Laboratory Before the Discovery Of Neutron; and Rutherford, Boltwood, and the Age Of the Earth: The Origin Of Radioactive Dating Techniques; and bibliography lists

Box 77, Folder 15

Berstein, Barton J. - Contains a letter and photocopies of his articles: In Any Light: Scientists and the Decision to Build the Superbomb; Missed 1952 Opportunity to Stop the H-Bomb; and Truman and the H-Bomb

Box 77, Folder 16

Bethe, Hans - Contains memorandum on the history of the Thermonuclear Program and "Stop the Arms Race - We Want to Get Off"

Box 77, Folder 17

Bialer, Seweryn - Contains letter and typescript of his article "Global Rivals Breakfast Event For Funders"

Box 77, Folder 18

Carter, Ashton (Acting Director for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University) - Permitted and Prohibited Space Testing Under the ABM Treaty - Statement before the Special Panel on SDI of the House of Armed Services Committee 1988

Box 77, Folder 19

Deterrence and Survival In the Nuclear Age (The "Gaither Report" of 1957) - Contains a publication brochure with a business card stapled to it and York's notes 1976

Box 78, Folder 1

Edmonds, John - Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Britain's Public Position 1962-1992 1993

Box 78, Folder 2

Fisher, Roger - The U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: How Do We Negotiate Good Relations 1983

Box 78, Folder 3

Future Of the Department Of Energy Laboratories - Hearing before the Committee on Science, Space... 1991

Box 78, Folder 4

Goodpaster, Andrew J. (General) - Contains his following papers: Atlantic Council Of the United States; Future Reins On Nuclear Arms; and Gorbachev and the Future Of East-West Security: A Response For the Mid-Term; and a letter 1989 - 1993

Box 78, Folder 5

Di, He - Contains following Di's papers: Crisis Management In Sino-American Relations In the 1950s; Evolution Of the People's Republic Of China's Policy Toward the Offshore Islands; New Perspectives On the United States-China Confrontation Over Quemoy and Matsu; and Was There a Crisis In the Taiwan Strait In 1954-1955

Box 78, Folder 6

Kidder, R. E. - Contains two of his publications: Assessment Of the Safety Of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons and Related Nuclear Test Requirements: A Post Bush Initiative Update; and Maintaining the U.S. Stockpile Of Nuclear Weapons During a Low-Threshold Or Comprehensive Test Ban

Box 78, Folder 7

Kowarski, L. - Contains reprints and photocopies of Kowaski's articles: Computers: Why; Conditions Of Success Of International Enterprises In Science and Technology; Computing As a Language Of Physics; L'avenir de L'enérgie Nucléaire: Les Questions Qui Se Posent; Spreading Nuclear Ware; Recognition Of Visual Data In High Energy Physics; Synopsis Of the Proposed Communication On Technological Phobias; and Team Work and Individual Work In Research 1963 - 1973

Box 78, Folder 8

Krieken, van Mark and Roel - Technological Feasibility and Policy Considerations 1982

Box 78, Folder 9

MacDonald, Gordon J. - Contains two of his articles: "JASON and DCPG - Ten Lessons" and "JASON - The Early Years"

Box 78, Folder 10

Mueller, John - Contains a typescript of his paper "Retreat From Doomsday: The Obsolescence Of Major War" 1988

Box 78, Folder 11

Platt, Joseph - Contains photocopies of his following papers: "Federalists and the Design Of Stabilization," "Living With the Bomb: Science In the Nuclear Age," and "Paths to Destruction On Survival In the 1980s"

Box 78, Folder 12

Rathjens, George - Contains typescripts of "Global Security On Approaching the 21th Century" and "New Security Agendas For the 1990s," and a copy of "Nuclear Weapons After the Cold War" published in FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Fall 1991), and a letter 1988 - 1991

Box 78, Folder 13

Rechtin, E. - Comments on Strategic Defense Initiative Matters 1987

Box 78, Folder 14

Reed, Thomas C. - Role Of Nuclear Weapons In the New World Order 1991

Box 78, Folder 15

Pontifical Academy - Working group discussion April 1, 1980

Box 78, Folder 16

Sagdeev, Roald Z. (Director of the Institute of Space Research of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences) - Contains the following papers in English and in Russian: Problems Of Control Of Sea-Based Cruise Missiles Containing Nuclear Warheads; Science and Perestroika: A Long Way to Go; and Strategic Stability Under the Conditions Of Radical Nuclear Arms Reductions: Report On Study 1987 - 1988

Box 78, Folder 17

Shapiro, Charles S., Harvey, Ted F., and Peterson, Kendall R. - Local and Global Deposition Of Radioactivity: A Reassessment. Contains a reprint of the article from the Proceedings of the International Seminar on Nuclear War 5th Session, held in Erice, Italy, August 19-24 1985

Box 79, Folder 1

Temirbaev, Roland (Soviet Diplomat and Arms Negotiator) - Contains his papers and reports: Control Of Arms Limitation and Disarmament; Political and Sociological Affairs Verification Of Arms Limitation and Disarmament, Evolution Of the Soviet Approach to International Control Of Nuclear Energy; and a letter and article about Timerbaev "Roland Timerbaev Former Soviet Diplomat and Arms Negotiator 1983 - 1993

Box 79, Folder 2

Weizsacker, C. F. Freiher V. - Glaube und Wissenschaftlich -Technische Welt 1980

Box 79, Folder 3

Willoughby, Randy - Current Options and Proposals For Arms Control: Incentives, Goals, and Obstacles to Progress 1985

Box 79, Folder 4

Yankelovich, Daniel - Speech at Exploratory Meeting on the Nuclear Deadlock 1983

Box 79, Folder 5

Yonas, Gerold - Peacetime Management 1988

Box 79, Folder 6

Zacharias, R. Jerrold, Gordon, Myles, and Davis, Savile R. - Common Sense and Nuclear Peace undated

 

COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN

Scope and Content of Series

Series 16) COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN - GENEVA - AMBASSADOR: The COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN series contains materials pertaining to York's service as ambassador to the Comprehensive Test Ban talks in Geneva. The files contain memos, agendas, delegates names, internal communications notes, summaries of meetings, reports, papers, meeting announcements, invitations to receptions, personnel policies, and periodicals.
 

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Box 79, Folder 7

Administration - Miscellaneous correspondence February - December 5, 1979

Box 79, Folder 8

Committee on Disarmament - Contains proposal, draft, excerpts from final record, speech, and memorandum 1979 - 1980

Box 79, Folder 9

Excerpt from Associated Press Release by Barry Schweid June 14, 1979

Box 79, Folder 10

Members of American delegations - Member information 1979 - 1980

Box 79, Folder 11

Members of British delegations - Member information 1979 - 1980

Box 79, Folder 12

Members of Soviet delegations - Member information 1979 - 1980

Box 79, Folder 13

NAC (Nuclear Arms Control) Statement - Contains a photocopy of the report to the North Atlantic Council undated

Box 79, Folder 14

Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference - Internal communications - Contains itinerary notes and summary of the third NPT committee meeting

Box 79, Folder 15

Proposal of the U.S. Delegation Regarding Tasks of the Political Working Group undated

Box 79, Folder 16

Report of the Secretary-General on Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban December 11, 1979

Box 79, Folder 17

Report to the Congress on the Results of the NPT Review Conference September 23, 1980

Box 79, Folder 18

Representation Funds for Sessions - Statements and memos May 26 - July 20, 1979

Box 79, Folder 19

Resolution Adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations 1979

Box 79, Folder 20

Seismic Data Center Program Objectives February 13, 1980

Box 79, Folder 21

Tripartite Report to the Committee on Disarmament - Contains photocopies of the report typescripts, one in Russian and one in English 1980

Box 79, Folder 22

United Nations Study - Draft by Joseph Goldblat undated

Box 79, Folder 23-24

Geneva Memorabilia - Announcements of meetings, invitations to receptions, lists of participants, and letters 1979 - 1980

 

Papers

Box 80, Folder 1

Arms Control Agenda For the Eighties by J. F. Dobbins 1980

Box 80, Folder 2

Launch on Warning and Launch Under Attack by Richard L. Garwin March 15, 1979

Box 80, Folder 3

National Security and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty by Joseph K. Landauer 1980

Box 80, Folder 4

Negotiating with the Soviet Union undated

 

Periodicals

Box 80, Folder 5

Daily Bulletin - Contains notes on U.S. progress in the comprehensive test ban negotiations July 31, 1980

Box 80, Folder 6

Origins - The Pope's UNESCO Speech "The World As an Environment For Humanity" June 12, 1980

Box 80, Folder 7

Rights and privileges of OSI personnel - Contains Memorandum For the Record and a photocopy of part 4 Diplomatic Relations adopted by Vienna Convention 1979

Box 80, Folder 8

Security policy and procedures for U.S. Mission Building in Geneva and an info note about security clearances 1979

 

SUBJECT FILES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 17) SUBJECT FILES: Arranged in alphabetical order. Includes reports, articles, correspondence, memorandums, news releases, photocopies of newspaper clippings, statements, brochures, and photocopies of archival materials related to the history of nuclear arms development and disarmament issues.
Box 80, Folder 9

Addresses of conference participants and membership directories 1989 - 1995

Box 80, Folder 10

Addresses for mailing books undated

Box 80, Folder 11

Addresses for mailing reprints undated

Box 80, Folder 12

Albert Einstein Peace Prize Foundation 1981 - 1986

Box 80, Folder 13

Antimatter weapons

Box 80, Folder 14

Anti-Satellite Weapons (ASAT) talks 1978 - 1981

Box 80, Folder 15

Arbatov, Georgii (Director of the Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, Moscow) 1975 - 1980

Box 80, Folder 16

Aspin, Les (Chairman, House Armed Services Committee) 1992

Box 80, Folder 17

Baruch Plan - Documents, Pt. 1

Box 81, Folder 1

Baruch Plan - Documents, Pt. 2

Box 81, Folder 2

Brown, Harold (Secretary of Defense, the Pentagon) 1976 - 1978

Box 81, Folder 3-5

Budgets - Defense Budget Project 1964 - 1993

Box 81, Folder 6

Catholic Bishops' Letter on Arms Control 1983

Box 81, Folder 7

Carter Nuclear Disarmament Task Force 1976

Box 81, Folder 8

China - A-Bomb

Box 82, Folder 1

China - Trip materials 1986

Box 82, Folder 2

CISAC Delegation Plutonium Discussions in Moscow March 14-18, 1994

Box 82, Folder 3-8

Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban (CTB) 1978 - 1993

Box 83, Folder 1

Corona Program 1995

Box 83, Folder 2-5

Defense Department - Harold Brown 1976 - 1987

Box 83, Folder 6

Dushanbe Military Installation 1986 - 1987

Box 83, Folder 7

Environmental Welfare 1977

Box 83, Folder 8

Freedom of Information Act 1975

Box 83, Folder 9

Freeze and Reduction in Nuclear Weapons 1981 - 1982

Box 83, Folder 10

Forsberg, Randall (Chair, National Advisory Board on Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign) 1982

Box 83, Folder 11

General Advisory Committee 1949 - 1974

Box 83, Folder 12

Hiroshima 1975

Box 84, Folder 1

Intelligence 1976 - 1980

Box 84, Folder 2

Interstellar Communication 1973

Box 84, Folder 3-5

JASON 1972 - 1992

Box 84, Folder 6

Johnson, Gerald W. (Chairman, Defense Science Board) 1993 - 1994

Box 84, Folder 7

Joint Declaration 1984

Box 84, Folder 8

Keyhole Satellite Program March 1984

Box 84, Folder 9

Killian Report on Space 1957 - 1973

Box 84, Folder 10

Kistiakowsky Visiting Scholar Program 1981 - 1987

Box 84, Folder 11

L'express Affair 1973

Box 84, Folder 12

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) 1971 - 1978

Box 85, Folder 1

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) 1971 - 1978

Box 85, Folder 2

Mahedy, William 1988

Box 85, Folder 3

May, Ernest 1986 - 1987

Box 85, Folder 4-5

May, Michael 1980 - 1994

Box 85, Folder 6

Mexican-American relations - Contains correspondence regarding cooperation between UCSD campus, San Diego downtown community, and Baja California institutions 1969

Box 85, Folder 7

MX Missile

Box 85, Folder 8

Nitze, Paul H. (Ambassador, Special Adviser to the President and Secretary of State on Arms Control Matter) 1986

Box 85, Folder 9

Negotiating With Soviets

Box 85, Folder 10

No First Use

Box 85, Folder 11

Non-Proliferation Treaty 1974 - 1980

Box 86, Folder 1

NRC (National Research Council) on Plasma Science 1991 - 1994

Box 86, Folder 2

NSC - 68 1980

Box 86, Folder 3

Nuclear accidents 1975

Box 86, Folder 4

Nuclear arms race

Box 86, Folder 5

Nuclear disarmament poll 1981

Box 86, Folder 6

Nuclear history

Box 86, Folder 7

Nuclear proliferation

Box 86, Folder 8

Nuclear testing and experiments 1957 - 1958

Box 86, Folder 9-11

Nuclear weapons effects

Box 87, Folder 1, Oversize FB-420-07

Operation Greenhouse - Contains a photo album with photographs documenting the 1951 atomic weapon test blast conducted on Eniwetok Atoll grounds in the Marshall Islands 1951 - 1952

Box 87, Folder 2

Peace studies 1981

Box 87, Folder 3

President's Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation 1964 - 1965

Box 87, Folder 4

Prospectus for papers 1971

Box 87, Folder 5

PSAC 1958 Report On Space

Box 87, Folder 6-11

Sakharov, Andrei (Nobel prize winner, Russian academician) 1960 - 1991

Box 87, Folder 12

Science policy - Contains papers examining the U.S. Science Policy and the role of presidential science advisors 1973 - 1981

Box 87, Folder 13

Stanford University - Japan - Conference on U.S. Relations in the Field of Arms Control and International ... 1975

Box 87, Folder 14

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) 1983 - 1985

Box 88, Folder 1-2

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) 1983 - 1985

Box 88, Folder 3

Security issues 1962 - 1985

Box 88, Folder 4-6

Soviet Nuclear Weapons Development 1974 - 1993

Box 88, Folder 7

Strategic Nuclear Balance 1983

Box 88, Folder 8

Student Pugwash Conference 1979 - 1981

Box 88, Folder 9

United Kingdom Strategic Military Policy 1980 - 1983

Box 89, Folder 1

Teller, Edward 1982 - 1983

Box 89, Folder 2

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development 1975 - 1982

Box 89, Folder 3

U.S. Strategic Weapons Systems 1979 - 1980

Box 89, Folder 4

Vladivostok agreement 1974 - 1975

Box 89, Folder 5

UNESCO Conference, Santiago, Chili September 13-22, 1965

Box 89, Folder 6

UNESCO Conference Perspectives on the Crisis of UNESCO 1985 - 1986

Box 89, Folder 7

United Nations University 1973 - 1974

Box 89, Folder 8

University for Peace, Costa Rica 1983 - 1984

Box 89, Folder 9

Wedemeyer Panel on the Use of Atomic Energy in Continental Defense 1954 - 1988

Box 89, Folder 10

Weisskopf, Victor 1979 - 1985

Box 89, Folder 11

WGBH - Nuclear Age Series

Box 89, Folder 12

Wohlstetter, Albert 1974 - 1985

Box 89, Folder 13

Zuckerman, Lord Sally 1981 - 1988

Box 89, Folder 14

Miscellaneous materials

 

RACE TO OBLIVION - RESEARCH MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 18) RACE TO OBLIVION RESEARCH MATERIALS. Arranged in four subseries: A) Chapter Notes, B) Subject Files, C) People and Personalities, and D) Miscellaneous Reference Materials.
A) Chapter Notes: An outline for Chapter IV-VII, bibliographic references, book assistants' notes, and reference materials.
B) Subject Files: Arranged in alphabetical order, and contains reference materials on various topics in nuclear arms development and disarmament.
C) People and Personalities: Notes and reference materials on key science and public leaders who played a significant role in nuclear arms development and disarmament. The files are arranged in alphabetical order by surname.
D) Miscellaneous Reference Materials: Arranged in York's numeric order, contains miscellaneous reference materials that were found in folders with book materials.
 

Chapter Notes

Box 90, Folder 1

Outline for parts IV-VI

Box 90, Folder 2

Army post World War II research and development - Army, navy, and air force - Outline undated

Box 90, Folder 3

Bibliographic file undated

Box 90, Folder 4

Book assistants' notes undated

Box 90, Folder 5

Chemical explosion excavation - Photographs and slides

Box 90, Folder 6

Correspondence with archives, libraries, and others regarding the book 1963 - 1977

Box 90, Folder 7

ICBM outline - Contains outline for missile development in the 1950s-1960s and comments on it 1973

Box 90, Folder 8

Library research undated

 

Chapter IV, 1 - General overview

Box 90, Folder 9

Background notes

Box 90, Folder 10

Budget

Box 90, Folder 11

New programs and organizations, new persons and policies

 

Chapter IV, 2 - New look and massive retaliation

Box 90, Folder 12

Input - Korean War reaction and McCarthyism

Box 90, Folder 13

Output - Defense Reorganization, SMEC-Gardner, Quarles-Eleminate Keller and Research and Development Board

 

Chapter IV, 3 - First missile review in DoD

Box 90, Folder 14

H-bomb, Early Atlas program, and other rockets and missiles

Box 90, Folder 15

SMEC, Teapot, Gardner, Von Neumann, and Quarles

Box 90, Folder 16

Output - Nuclear propulsion

Box 90, Folder 17

Output - Von Neumann reports of February 1954 and June 1954..

 

Chapter IV, 4 - Strategic technology review in the White House

Box 90, Folder 18

Bissell and Klass' interviews on flights..

Box 90, Folder 19

TCP origins and general info

Box 90, Folder 20

Technological capabilities panel - Killian

 

Chapter IV, 5 - DoD programmatic responses

Box 91, Folder 1

General

Box 91, Folder 2

GOR 80

Box 91, Folder 3

Army: Jupiter

Box 91, Folder 4

Navy: Polaris

Box 91, Folder 5

USAF: Thor, U-2, GOR 80, Agena, Pied Piper, Air (Defense) Sage

 

Chapter IV, 6 - IGY Satellites

Box 91, Folder 6

Army: Orbiter and Jupiter C

Box 91, Folder 7

General: Satellite Origins

Box 91, Folder 8

Navy: Vanguard

Box 91, Folder 9

Soviet proposals and statements

 

Chapter IV, 7 - Development and Evaluation of Strategic Studies and Concepts

Box 91, Folder 10

Advisors: Morganstern, Teller..

Box 91, Folder 11

IDA, RAND, etc

Box 91, Folder 12

Rockfeller and Gaither panels

Box 91, Folder 13

Scholars

 

Chapter IV, 8 - Soviet program

Box 91, Folder 14

What we knew then: Soviet statements, defectors, Turkish radar, and U-2

Box 91, Folder 15

What we know now: Korolev, Soviet ICBM program, Soviet satellites..

 

Chapter IV, 9 - Nuclear Arms Control and Disarmament

Box 91, Folder 16

Chronologies

Box 91, Folder 17

Clean bomb episode

Box 91, Folder 18

DOE arms for peace, open skies, early task forces..

Box 92, Folder 1

General

Box 92, Folder 2

Harold Stassen

Box 92, Folder 3

In service: new look, Walcowicz

Box 92, Folder 4

Pugwash and other arms control movements

Box 92, Folder 5

Chapter IV, 10 - Aircraft carriers - Bomber gap

Box 92, Folder 6

Chapter IV, 11 - Air defense - Sage, Nike Hercules, Bomarc, Interceptors, Dew Line, and Lincoln lab

Box 92, Folder 7

Chapter IV, 13 - Nuclear weapons development

 

Chapter V, 1

Box 92, Folder 8

General overview - Sputnik and immediate reactions and the facts as a well informed outsider ..

Box 92, Folder 9

Public statements of the White House, the Congress, and IGY Circles

 

Chapter V, 2 - First organizational responses

Box 92, Folder 10

DoD (ARRA, AF, A, and N) and the Congress

Box 92, Folder 11

NASA

Box 92, Folder 12

White House: PSAC and Gaither

 

Chapter V, 3 - First organizational responses

Box 92, Folder 13

Air Force programs: Minuteman, Man In Space, and others

Box 92, Folder 14

IGY satellites: Vanguard, Jupiter-C

Box 92, Folder 15

Man In Space

Box 92, Folder 16

Navy

Box 92, Folder 17

Chapter V, 4 - Nuclear arms control and disarmament October 1957 - January 1961

Box 93, Folder 1

Chapter VI, 1 - General overview - U.S. Program 58-60, Missile Gap, and budgets

Box 93, Folder 2

Chapter VI, 2 - New organizations and their responsibilities - NASA, ODDRE, and ARPA

 

Chapter VI, 3 - Missile programs bear fruit

Box 93, Folder 3

False starts: Skybolt, Dynosaur, ANP, Aerospace Plane

Box 93, Folder 4

Related programs: Bombers, air defense

Box 93, Folder 5

Successes: Atlas, Titan, Thor, Jupiter, Polaris, Minuteman

 

Chapter VI, 4 - Space program Jells

Box 93, Folder 6

ARPA studies

Box 93, Folder 7

DoD's initial program

Box 93, Folder 8-9

NASA's initial program

Box 93, Folder 10

Chapter VI, 5 - Soviet program and the Missile Gap - As a well informed insider could know them and as they..

Box 93, Folder 11

Chapter VI, 6 - U-2 and WS

 

Chapter VI, 7 - Nuclear arms and disarmament

Box 93, Folder 12

1958-1959 Moratorium

Box 93, Folder 13

Conference of experts in Geneva

 

Chapter VII, 1 - General overview

Box 93, Folder 14

General

Box 93, Folder 15

Budgets and aircraft carriers

Box 94, Folder 1

Kennedy years: analysis of U.S. Defense policies

Box 94, Folder 2

What McNamara learned and how John F. Kennedy and McNamara reacted

 

Chapter VII, 2

Box 94, Folder 3

Decisions about B-70, air defense, satellites, and related systems

Box 94, Folder 4

Decisions about civil space, skybolt, and White House science

Box 94, Folder 5

Decisions about missiles (Minuteman, Titan, Atlas)

Box 94, Folder 6

Chapter VII, 3 - New systems - MIRV (Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicles), MMRBM..

Box 94, Folder 7

Chapter VII, 4 - Arms control - Nuclear test ban in nuclear years, decisions about arms control

 

Subject Files

 

ABM history

Box 94, Folder 8

General history

Box 94, Folder 9

1968-1971

Box 94, Folder 10

ABM and the Russians

Box 94, Folder 11

BMD/Nike-X

Box 94, Folder 12

Computer professionals against ABM

Box 95, Folder 1

Aircraft history

 

Arms Control

Box 95, Folder 2

Arms Control and Foreign Policy

Box 95, Folder 3

Chronology

Box 95, Folder 4

Arms Control Disarmament Agency

Box 95, Folder 5

History

Box 95, Folder 6

Pugwash

Box 95, Folder 7

SALT II

Box 95, Folder 8

Soviet Union disarmament

 

Test Ban Negotiations

Box 95, Folder 9

Comprehensive Test Ban 1970s

Box 95, Folder 10

Nixon Administration and Arms Control

Box 95, Folder 11

Test Ban Chronology

Box 95, Folder 12

Arms Race Analyses

 

Atomic Energy

Box 96, Folder 1

AEC's Weapons Program

Box 96, Folder 2

Cold War Controversy: Decision to Build H-Bomb

Box 96, Folder 3

Atomic Energy - Early Nuclear Tests: IVY, Castle, etc

Box 96, Folder 4

GAC Meeting of October 1949

Box 96, Folder 5

Los Alamos: Scientists and the Cold War Loyalty

Box 96, Folder 6

Nuclear Testing

Box 96, Folder 7

Nuclear Weapons Design

Box 96, Folder 8

Nuclear Weapons History - Chinese Bomb

Box 96, Folder 9

Nuclear Weapons History - Indian Nuclear Program

Box 96, Folder 10

Nuclear Weapons History - Japan

Box 96, Folder 11

Oppenheimer book notes (Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb)

Box 96, Folder 12

Technical Data

Box 96, Folder 13

U.S. Nuclear Program - Outline by Hansen

 

Atomic Energy in Europe

Box 96, Folder 14

Great Britain

Box 96, Folder 15

French Atomic Energy Program

Box 96, Folder 16

French Bomb

Box 96, Folder 17

Nuclear Weapons

 

Atomic Energy USSR

Box 96, Folder 18

Kapitza, Zhukov, and Sakharov

Box 97, Folder 1

Krushev and Kurchatov on Soviet H-Bomb

Box 97, Folder 2

Kurchatov

Box 97, Folder 3

Soviet H-Bomb

Box 97, Folder 4

Truman Administration and Soviet Relations

 

Atomic Energy Laboratories

Box 97, Folder 5

Instrumentation Laboratory and Chas. Stark D-Raper Laboratory

Box 97, Folder 6

Livermore Laboratory

Box 97, Folder 7

Los Alamos Laboratory

Box 97, Folder 8

MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics

Box 97, Folder 9

Notes on various laboratories

 

Committees

Box 97, Folder 10

Gaither Report

Box 97, Folder 11

Office of Science and Technology Policy

Box 97, Folder 12

Science Advisory Committee

Box 97, Folder 13

Congressional Hearing - Jonson Hearings

Box 97, Folder 14

Eisenhower

Box 97, Folder 15

History of Science and Technology

Box 97, Folder 16

Kistiakowsky Diary

 

MIRV

Box 97, Folder 17

Chronologies

Box 98, Folder 1

Correspondence and phone interviews

Box 98, Folder 2

General data

Box 98, Folder 3

Greenwood correspondence

Box 98, Folder 4

History

Box 98, Folder 5

Illustrations

Box 98, Folder 6

Senator Edmund S. Muskie

Box 98, Folder 7

Official Quotes

Box 98, Folder 8

Titan III, Agena

Box 98, Folder 9

Missile Development

Box 98, Folder 10-14

Missile Development in the U.S

Box 98, Folder 15

Missile Development USSR

Box 98, Folder 16

Soviet Space Program

 

Space Program in the U.S

Box 98, Folder 17

R. Cargill Hall - Instrumented Exploration and Utilization of Space

Box 98, Folder 18

R. Cargill Hall - Lunar Impact: A History of Project Ranger

Box 99, Folder 1

Glennan diary

Box 99, Folder 2

Man in Space

Box 99, Folder 3

NASA's history

Box 99, Folder 4

Reconnaissance Satellites

 

Think Tanks: Government, Military, Business, and Science

Box 99, Folder 5

General Info

Box 99, Folder 6

Aerospace Corporation history

Box 99, Folder 7

DSB Task Force on FCRC Utilization

Box 99, Folder 8

JASON

Box 99, Folder 9

Military Industrial Complex

Box 99, Folder 10

RAND

Box 99, Folder 11

WSEG (Weapons System Evaluation Group)

 

People and Personalities

Box 100, Folder 1

General biographical information

Box 100, Folder 2-4

A - T (Aspin through Terhune)

Box 100, Folder 5

Alvarez, Luis

Box 100, Folder 6

Bacher, Robert

Box 100, Folder 7

Beckler, David

Box 100, Folder 8

Bethe, Hans

Box 100, Folder 9

Currie, Malcolm

Box 100, Folder 10

Donovan, Allen

Box 100, Folder 11

Dryden, Hugh L

Box 100, Folder 12

DuBridge, Lee - Contains correspondence

Box 100, Folder 13

Ford, Vincent

Box 100, Folder 14

Frenkel, Y. I

Box 100, Folder 15

Frish, Otto Robert

Box 100, Folder 16

Gamon, George

Box 100, Folder 17

Gardner, Trevoe

Box 100, Folder 18

Gates, Tom

Box 100, Folder 19

Getting, Ivan A. - Contains correspondence

Box 100, Folder 20

Glennan, T. K

Box 100, Folder 21

Hill, Albert

Box 100, Folder 22

Holaday, William

Box 100, Folder 23

Issacs, John D

Box 100, Folder 24

Joliot-Curie, Irene

Box 100, Folder 25

Kahn, Herman

Box 100, Folder 26

Keller, K. T

Box 100, Folder 27

Killian, James R

Box 100, Folder 28

Kissinger, Henry

Box 100, Folder 29

Kistiakowsky, George B

Box 100, Folder 30

Korolev

Box 100, Folder 31

Land, Edwin

Box 100, Folder 32

Landau, Lev

Box 100, Folder 33

Latter, Richard

Box 100, Folder 34

Lauritsen, C. C

Box 100, Folder 35

Lawrence, E. O

Box 100, Folder 36

Libby, W. F

Box 100, Folder 37

Medaris, John B. (General)

Box 100, Folder 38

McCone, John A

Box 100, Folder 39

Murphee, Eger V

Box 100, Folder 40

Nichols, Kenneth (General) - Contains correspondence

Box 100, Folder 41

Noel-Baker, Philip - Contains correspondence

Box 100, Folder 42

Oppenheimer, J. Robert - Contains correspondence

Box 100, Folder 43

Quarles, Donald

Box 100, Folder 44

Rabi, I. I

Box 101, Folder 1

Ramo, Simon

Box 101, Folder 2

Stassen, Harold E

Box 101, Folder 3

Strauss, Lewis

Box 101, Folder 4

Szilard, Leo

Box 101, Folder 5

Taylor, Theodore B

Box 101, Folder 6

Teller, Edward

Box 101, Folder 7

Tupolev

Box 101, Folder 8

Vannevar, Bush

Box 101, Folder 9

Von Braun, Wernher

Box 101, Folder 10

Von Karmen, Theodore

Box 101, Folder 11

Von Neumann, Johann

Box 101, Folder 12

Zwicky, Fritz

 

Miscellaneous Reference Materials

Box 101, Folder 13-19

I. A - G

Box 102, Folder 1-2

I. I - J

Box 102, Folder 3-7

II. A - E

Box 102, Folder 8-9

II. G - H

 

ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 19) ORIGINALS OF PRESERVATION PHOTOCOPIES: The originals of brittle or high acid content documents that have been photocopied.
Box 102, Folder 10

Originals