How Many and Where Were the Nukes? What the U.S. Government No Longer Wants You to Know about Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War

William Burr

doi:10.1017/S1557466006005225

How Many and Where Were the Nukes? What the U.S. Government No Longer Wants You to Know about Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2025

William Burr

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[The National Security Archive has released an important series of documents revealing the reversal of several decades of efforts to make available for public scrutiny the numbers of US nuclear missiles during the early decades of the atomic era.

The complete report, and the supporting documents revealing both the numbers of weapons and their deployment, including the deployment of nuclear weapons in Asia and the Pacific, as well as evidence of recent policy shifts designed to suppress already available public information, are available.

Type: Research Article
Information: Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 8 , August 2006 , e17

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1557466006005225 [Opens in a new window]
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