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box 1

Department of Energy materials

 

Clippings and articles 1978-2010

 

Correspondence 1993-2013

Scope and Contents note

Includes letters with Lisbeth Gronlung, Sid Drell, Dick Garwin, Raymond Jeanloz, Stephen Young, Eric Schlosser, Robert Nelson, and Jonathan Medalia.
 

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission materials

 

Hydrgen bomb transparencies

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Negative depicting bombs

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Notes

 

Prints of bomb designs

 

"#7 Phases," Department of Defense 2011

 

Email chain: "Mix and Match Warheads" 2014

 

U.S. Nuclear Posture: "Time to Reshape and Realign" 2001

 

Nuclear statistics

box 2

Clippings and articles 2007-2013

 

Union of Concerned Scientists materials 2013

 

Correspondence 2008-2013

 

Congressional Research Service Report 2007

 

The Reliable Replacement Warhead Program

 

Lifetime Extension Program (LED) materials 2001-2009

 

Excerpts from Dana Priest

 

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission materials

 

Aging

 

Hybel itinerary

 

"On the Use of Quantitative Risk Assessment Techniques in the U.S. Nuclear Waepons Program, 1955-1985: A Personal View" 1994

 

"Final Development report of the B61-7 Bomb (U)," redacted copy 1992

box 3

Clippings and articles

 

"Fewer Warheads, More Spending"

 

Correspondence 2009-2013

 

Materials relating to Dr. Charles McMillan's testimony 2012-2013

 

Biographical material

 

Writings by Sidney Drell

 

Materials related to aging weapons 1997

 

Department of Energy materials 1994

 

Congressional Research Service Report 2006

box 4

Bob Peurifoy Qualifications

 

"Sandia National Laboratories Developing the National Nuclear Weapon Stockpile, 1956-1965" 1995

 

"An Annotated Topical Index and Reference List for the Writing on Nuclear Weapon Program Management Topics - 1956 to 1988" 1988

 

Access/Use Control

 

Safety

 

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission materials

 

Weapons Program Documentation/Activity 1983

 

Correspondence 1973-2014

 

"A Study of and Recommendations for the Nuclear Weapon Safety Assurance Plan for SNL" 1988

 

Robert Peurifoy's opposition to moving the weapons program into the Department of Defense 2009

 

Sandia Laboratories materials

 

Remanufacture

 

Clippings and articles 1976-2014

box 5

Weapons costs

 

Clippings and articles 1994-2011

 

Correspondence 1995-2012

 

Security 1999

 

Sandia Laboratories material 1969-2010

 

Mark 21 nuclear bomb materials

 

Nuclear Weapons Arming and Fuzing

 

U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe 2005

 

Limited Life Components 1997

 

"Nuclear Testing: Summary and Conclusions" 1995

 

"Science at Its Best and Security at Its Worst"

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Clippings and articles 1997-2012

 

Interim report 2008

 

"Report to Congressional Requesters" 2012 February

 

GAO study

 

"The New START Treaty: Central Limits and Key Provisions" 2011 October

 

Correspondence 1990-2014

Scope and Contents note

Includes letters to/from Dr. John P. Holden, Greg Mello, Tom Collina, and Jay Coghlan.
 

Tech issues 2011

 

"Questions and Answers regarding the CMRR Project"

 

The Cato Institute Minimum Deterrence Report 2013

 

Stewardship campaigns 2001 November

 

BREDL Southern Anti-Plutonium Campaign

 

Congressional Research Service Report 2006-2008

 

"Workshop in U.S. Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Management: Summary Report" 2011

 

"Trimming Nuclear Excess" 2012 December

 

"Nuclear Budget Busters" 2012

box 7

Clippings and articles 1996-2011

 

B61 Family

 

Correspondence 2011-2014

 

Government Accountability Office 2007

 

Sandia materials

 

Congressional Research Service Report 2006-2007

 

Natural Resources Defense Council material

 

Annotated Vugraphs for Nuclear Detonation Safety Briefing 1981

 

Workshop on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Management materials 2011-2012

 

Airmunitions 1961

 

"Organization 9300 Philosophy and Guidance"

 

Minutes of the 133rd meeting of the fission weapon committee 1957-1958

 

"Nuclear Weapons: NNSA Needs to Refine and More Effectively Manage Its New Approach for Assessing and Certifying Nuclear Weapons" 2006

box 8

Weapons stockpile material

 

Correspondence 1961-2013

 

Super computers and weapons failures 2011

 

Clippings and articles 1978-2016

 

Department of Energy materials

 

"Stephen Young Archive: All Things Nuclear"

 

"The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Next Steps" 2000

 

Statement of Dr. Paul J. Hommert 2011

 

Statement of Dr. Donald L. Cook 2013

 

Statement of General C. R. Kehler 2013

 

Congressional Research Service Report 2007

 

Weapon diagrams

 

Hydronuclear experiments 1987

 

Hoover Institution briefing 2011

 

"High Science and Legal Loopholes" 2005

 

Penetration equations 1997

box 9

Vacuum Tubes

 

System-level flight tests 1999

 

SLAC memorandum 1995

 

Correspondence 1999-2012

 

Clippings and articles 1974-2010

 

MC2935: Application and testing

 

"B61-3,4,10 Alt 335 Lessons Learned and Corrective Actions" 2000

 

Session Four: Media and Public Policy

 

Types of Nuclear Weapons

 

U.S. Nuclear Weapon "Pit" Production Options for Congress

 

Notes

 

"Modernizing the Nuclear Security Enterprise" 2013

 

National Resources Defense Council materials

 

Report by Amarillo National Resources Center for Plutonium 1998

 

Statement of Neile Miller 2013

 

FOIA Exemptions

box 10

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Accidents

 

Department of Defense Directive 1993

 

Correspondence 2004-2012

 

"The Nuclear Credibility Gap: Three Crises" 2011

 

"Swords of Armageddon"

 

Sandia report 1997

 

"Findings and Recommendations Concerning The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty" 2001

 

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission materials

 

"Audit Report: The National Nuclear Security Administration's Enhanced Surveillance Campaign" 2004

 

Discussion notes on the Economic of Nuclear Energy

 

Clippings and articles 1997-2011

 

"Quantification of Margins and Uncertainties"

 

Congressional Research Service Report 2007

 

"Aircraft/Bomb Control System Faults 1961-1987"

 

"Narrative Summaries of Accidents Involving U.S. Nuclear Weapons 1950-1980," Department of Defense

 

"Briefing for the President on SAC Operations with Sealed-pit Weapons"

box 11

Clippings and articles 1997-2012

 

"Frequently Asked Questions on Pit Manufacturing Capacity" 2009

 

Correspondence 2008-2013

 

URRW 2005

 

"Why the Urgency?"

 

Pit Lifetime 2007

 

Weapons stockpile material

 

Reliability

 

Summary of Nuclear Enterprise Conference

 

Safety of nuclear weapon designs materials 1970

 

Custody

 

"Lessons Learned," Sandia National Laboratories 2001

box 12

"The Origins and Evolution of S2C at Sandia National Laboratories: 1949-1996"

 

Microfilm index tables

 

U.S. Air Force Project Rand Research memorandum 1958

 

Reliable replacement warhead 2006

 

New START 2013

box 13

Flower 1973-1991, 2013

 

Nuclear Matters Handbook: Expanded Edition 2012

 

"Stockpile Surveillance: Past and Future" 1996-2015

 

IAP: 1 1976, 2005

 

"The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: An Assessment of the Benefits, Costs, and Risks"

 

Correspondence

 

Comments on "Summary Report of the Workshop on U.S. Nuclear…" 2008-2012

 

Vacuum tubes

box 14

NIF Follies 2012-2013

 

Response to "Nuclear Weapons: DOD and NNSA Need to Better Manage Scope of Future…" 2011

 

Development reports 1969-1971

 

Vugraphs

 

"Safety Program Broken Arrows"

 

Flower letter

box 15

"Happy 50th Birthday Sandia"

 

W78 pit corrosion

 

CMA

 

Signatures of Aging 1998

 

URRW

 

"History of the Custody and Deployment of Nuclear Weapons, July 1945 through September 1977"

 

Congressional Advisory Panel on the Governance of the Nuclear Security Enterprise 2014

 

Pit lifetime 2005

box 16

Correspondence between Robert Peurifoy and Patrick Malone 2015

 

"Sandia: Looking Back"

 

"Earth Penetrators"

 

Correspondence between Robert Peurifoy and Tom Seitz 2006

 

Sandia National Laboratories photographs

Scope and Contents note

Including images of the Nevada Test Site.
 

Audiovisual materials

Scope and Contents

Original audiovisual materials are not available until they have been reformatted. If interested in accessing these materials, please contact us for more information.
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"PBX-9502" (An Insensitive High Explosive for Enchanced Nuclear Weapon Safety)

 

Digital materials

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Scope and Contents

Contains 5 optical disks.