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RESOURCE LIBRARY--
ARMS CONTROL ON THE WEB

What follows is not a comprehensive list but rather some suggestions of available resources in each area. If you know of a useful link to add to this list, email dmontague@ucsusa.org. This list was originally compiled by Sharon Weiner in 1999.

These Mega-Sites contain hundreds of links to a variety of nuclear issues.

• Nukefix contains a huge number of links to different nuclear-related sites including search engines for nuclear news items in the United States, Russia, Pakistan, India, North Korea and Europe, as well as search engines dedicated to other important nuclear websites.
   
• Proposition One Committee's Anti-Nuclear Web Site has a very comprehensive list of nuclear links in alphabetical order.
   
• The Big, Big List of Nuclear-Related Links is maintained by the Federal of American Scientists.
   
• The Internet and the Bomb, published by the Natural Resources Defense Council, is available for free from their website. Of the hundreds of links listed, approximately 75% are devoted to U.S. nuclear weapons including links to U.S. government libraries, technical reports, publication repositories, government news sources, and government regulations. The international links include international government organizations, NGOs, and the United Nations. There are also links to specific documents.
   
• The Nuclear Files provided by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, provides comprehensive historical and current information on ethical and policy problems related to nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, and nuclear waste.

• Nukefix has downloadable nuclear weapons computer programs for analyzing nuclear weapon blast effects, a nuclear power plant game, and other resources. The Nukefix homepage has information about blast effects and a computer simulation program so you can try your hand at solving the nuclear weapons proliferation problem.
   
• The Federation of American Scientists explains the basic principles of fission, fusion, and weapons design on its website, which also contains basic references on weapons physics. Schematics of an implosion device, the Teller-Ulam Configuration, a fusion boosted fission weapon, and some speculative nuclear weapon design concepts are also available.
   
• A similar site is the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, which contains information about uranium, plutonium, radioactive waste, non-weapons nuclear research, and radioactive decay heat.
   
• For specifics on plutonium and uranium, see The Nuclear Control Institute and The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research(IEER).
   
• For inventories of plutonium in the civil-sector, go to The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), and for a history of plutonium production, acquisition and utilization in the United States, see Plutonium: The First 50 Years.
   
• Information on the costs of nuclear weapons development in the United States can be found at The Brookings Institutions' U.S. Nuclear Weapons Costs Study Project.
   
• The Trinity Atomic Website contains information about nuclear weapon physics and technology as well as the effects of nuclear weapons and war. This site also contains some of the text from The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, edited by Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan (U.S. Department of Defense, 1977), a very useful book which is unfortunately out of print.
   
• Other U.S. Department of Defense publications about nuclear weapons technology and effects can be found at the Critical Military Technologies List.
   
• For unclassified documents about the U.S. nuclear weapons program from the Manhattan Project to the present, search the Department of Energy OpenNet Database.
   
• The Query Nuclear Explosions Database contains the location, time and size of explosions around the world since 1945.
   
• Publications from the now defunct U.S. Office of Technology Assessment include documents on nuclear weapons technology, effects, and use.

• The Atomic Mirror Nuclear Atlas contains information on the stockpiles and nuclear policies of various nations. This site also has a list of useful references about technical matters.
   
• The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists regularly carries information about nuclear arsenals.
   
• The Natural Resources Defense Council has a downloadable report that contains authoritative estimates of the sizes and locations of the nuclear arsenals of the U.S., Russia, Britain, France and China. The report contains detailed descriptions, including maps and tables.
   
• Information about the arsenals of both declared and suspected nuclear weapons states is maintained by the Federal of American Scientists at the High Energy Weapons Archive.
   
• The latest on the U.S. nuclear arsenal, including nuclear exercises, routine deployments and operations, nuclear planning, modernization of nuclear warheads and weapons, procurement of nuclear weapons systems, and construction of nuclear facilities can be found with the British American Security Information Council (BASIC).
   
• Take a virtual tour of past components of the U.S. nuclear arsenal at the National Atomic Museum.
   
• Information about U.S. nuclear weapons and policies from official government websites can be found with:
  • The Defense Special Weapons Agency
  • Strategic Command
  • The Department of Energy's Defense Programs
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Sandia National Laboratory
  • The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board

• Medicine and Global Survival is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted exclusively to the health and environmental consequences of war, weapons of mass destruction, environmental degradation, natural and human-caused disasters, human rights questions, and humanitarian intervention.
   
• The full text version of the Journal of the American Medical Association's August 5, 1998 article on Medicine and Nuclear War can be found on their website.
   
• Historical documents from the U.S. government's research using human subjects are at the Department of Energy's Office of Human Radiation Experiments.
   
• The Radiation Effects Research Foundation, a cooperative effort between Japan and the United States, provides information on the health effects of radiation.

• The website of the United Nations has the text of many treaties. Selected documents can be seen for free but many may, in the future, require a subscription fee.
   
• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) lists arms control treaties.
   
• For a searchable database of treaties, try Tufts University's Multilaterals Project.
   
• The text of many major arms control treaties can be found at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
   
• For the World Court decision on the legality of the use of nuclear weapons, as well as other international arms control initiatives, see the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA).
   
• The Stimson Center maintains The Internet Guide for Elimination Research (TIGER) which provides a comprehensive listing of Internet documents and sites on eliminating WMD that can be searched by specific proposal, transition strategy, or key challenges faced.
   
• The Cooperative Monitoring Center at Sandia National Laboratories, has information and reports on verification technologies and promises virtual workshops and classes in the future.

• The Atomic Mirror Nuclear Atlas contains information on the types of nuclear reactors by country. It also has technical references about nuclear power in general.
   
• The Nuclear Information and Resource Service is an information and networking center for people and environmental organizations concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues. It posts resources, including information about MOX, different types of reactors, and waste storage.
   
• For issues of nuclear power safety, see the U.S. DOE's International Nuclear Safety Center (INSC).

• Lists of groups and organizations working towards disarmament and/or the elimination of nuclear weapons can be found with The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and also with Proposition One. The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability maintains a map of U.S. nuclear sites with links to the government and grassroots groups that monitor the activities of these sites.

• The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute looks at the technology and history of both biological and chemical weapons.
   
• For statements and analyses relating to chemical weapons and especially poisonous gas, see the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers.
   
• For issues related to chemical and biological weapons as well as arms control efforts and terrorism, see the Stimson Center's Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Project.
   
• The Federation of American Scientists maintains a list of biological and chemical weapons web resources.
   
• The Joint Bradford - SIPRI Chemical and Biological Warfare Project provides information on the Chemical Weapons Convention, the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, and related biological and chemical warfare issues.
   
• News and general information can be found at The Chemical and Biological Arms Control Institute.
   
• Information related to a class at Cal Poly offers an overview of chemical and biological warfare, weapons, and efforts to outlaw them.
   
• Mitrek has information on the chemistry and chemical weapons and their countermeasures.

• The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) maintains an extensive military analysis website that is devoted to explaining the capabilities and uses of many U.S. weapons systems.
   
• Information on conventional arms sales can be found at the SIPRI Arms Transfers Project.
   
• The Center for Defense Information maintains an extensive database on arms transfers, including information on specific regions and countries.

• The University of California at Davis maintains a list of readings about war and the causes of war.
   
• A searchable database of military history is maintained by E-Hawk.
   
• CNN produced a web-based interactive version of its multi-part documentary on the Cold War.
   
• For a history of the development of the atomic bomb by the United States, see The Atomic Archive.
   
• For current thinking on deterrence and the use of nuclear weapons by the United States, see FAS's copy of an Air Force document.

• The Union of Concerned Scientists discusses the politics and problems of ballistic missile defenses on its arms control pages.
   
• For information about weapons delivery systems including ICBMs, cruise missiles, aircraft and artillery, see the Critical Military Technologies List.
   
• For a list of missiles by mission or country, see The Missile Index.
   
• The Council for a Livable World maintains information and analyses of ballistic missile defenses.
   
• The Last 15 Minutes: Ballistic Missile Defense in Perspective (Edited by Joseph Cirincione and Frank von Hippel) has an on-line edition.
   
• The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace maintains a list of links to resources about missile defenses.

• FAS's Space Policy Project provides information and analysis on civil and military space issues, policies and programs.
   
• For U.S. ideas about the military uses of space, see the U.S. Space Command long range plan.

• For satellite photos and maps, try Terraserver. Photos of the United States can be obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey.