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New Online Collection on Weapons of Mass Destruction

Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Top Secret History of America’s Nuclear,
Chemical and Biological Warfare Programs and Their Deployment Overseas

Editor: Matthew M. Aid

Outright Purchase Price: US$ 4,886

The documents in this new online collection - quietly declassified since the late 1970s - explain the role of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons in a series of world crises, how they shaped U.S. and NATO defense and foreign policy during the Cold War, and what incidents and nearly averted disasters happened. Moreover, they shed a light on the dreadful human and ecological legacy left by decades of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons manufacturing and testing in the U.S. and overseas.

Number of documents: 2,374
Number of pages: ca. 21,212
Period covered: mainly Cold War era, but also beyond.
Topics covered: military strategy, foreign policy, (near) disasters, (secret) deployment of weapons overseas (Europe, Asia), growth of WMD stockpiles, ecological impact, testing on humans.

Highlights:

U.S.-Canadian nuclear weapons relations.
(secret) agreements with NATO partners on (100+) U.S. nuclear weapons storage sites the U.K., Germany, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and the Netherlands.
(secret) storage of nuclear and chemical weapons in Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan and South Korea.
U.S. military preparations for using nuclear weapons against mainland China during the Taiwan Strait crises of the 1950s.

The documents in this collection are not only sourced from US Archives and Presidential Libraries but also from the NATO Archives, the National Archives of Canada, the National Archives of the UK, and the National Archives of the Netherlands.

This collection is of interest to intelligence historians, Cold War historians, military historians, environmental researchers, graduate and undergraduate students of modern history, and researchers as well as government and military specialists working on international relations, security, and military strategy and tactics.

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