Nuclear War

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Magazine  http://www.thebulletin.org/

 The ( U.S.) Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science (EFNS), a not-for-profit organization, publishes the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and manages other related programs from its office in Chicago. The mission of the EFNS is to educate citizens about global security issues, especially the continuing dangers posed by nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, and about the appropriate roles of nuclear technology. One of its more well known symbols is the “Doomsday Clock”.  For nearly 55 years, the Bulletin’s clock has been the world’s most recognizable symbol of nuclear danger.  Since 1947, when its famous clock appeared on the cover the clock has moved forward and back, reflecting the state of international security http://www.thebulletin.org/clock.html .  

The Bureau of Atomic Tourism  http://www.atomictourist.com/

A site dedicated to the promotion of tourist locations around the world that have either been the site of atomic explosions, display exhibits on the development of atomic devices, or contain vehicles that were designed to deliver atomic weapons. For instance one can obtain details about visiting the location of the first atomic bomb test at Trinity NM http://www.atomictourist.com/trinity.htm  or taking a tour of a Titan missile silo http://www.atomictourist.com/titan.htm  or any other such aspects of this growing tourism ‘industry’.

Visit a Titan-II Missile Museum near Tucson, AZ

http://www.titanmissilemuseum.org/

Don Boelling, a former Senior Wing Instructor at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, AZ has set up his own TITAN-II page. Don's page has tons of textual info, links, and animations. You can also take a tour deep into the "hardened" command center. Here, essential equipment--indeed the center itself--is mounted on springs to withstand anything but a direct hit. Then you pass through a couple of 6,000 pound blast doors and walk along a space-age corridor to the silo itself. The 110 foot tall missile weighed 170 tons when it was fueled and ready to fly.

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/

This is a “sister site" relationship to Gregory Walker's Trinity Site. The two appear to be actively collaborating to provide the broadest variety of nuclear weapon information, in the most convenient form that they can. The two sites each have a different focus. The High Energy Weapon Archive provides current information, technical data, and informative write-ups. The Trinity Site focuses on historical information, especially reproductions of public domain documents. A huge amount of info on the topic, well catalogued. The Trinity Site seems to have a photo of virtually every nuclear weapon that has been tested above ground since day one in its Gallery of Test Photos. Also visit the site to see what happens in the first few fractions of a second when a fusion bomb detonates.  "If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them.” - Hans A. Bethe

CANADIAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS A book by  Dr. John M. Clearwater Dundurn Press Toronto) 1998 http://www.user.dccnet.com/welcomewoods/Nuclear_Free_Georgia_Strait/clearwater.html

“From 1963 to 1984 US nuclear warheads armed Canadian weapons systems in both Canada and Germany. This important book is an operational-technical (W5) expose of the period. Its purpose is to bring together until-recently secret information about the nature of the nuclear arsenal in Canada, and combine it with known information about the systems in the US nuclear arsenal.” -  John Clearwater has been a volunteer at the Diefenbunker and was a significant contributor to our Strategic Threat Exhibit.