Working Paper Series

The NPIHP Working Paper Series is designed to provide a speedy publications outlet for historians who have gained access to newly-available archives and sources and would like to share their results.

• Interpreting the Bomb: Ownership and Deterrence in Ukraine’s Nuclear Discourse
• Waiting for the Bomb: PN Haksar and India's Nuclear Policy in the 1960's
• Bringing Seoul into the Non-Proliferation Regime
• Diverting the Arms Race into the Permitted Channels
• Prelude to the Euromissle Crisis
• Tlatelolco Tested
• The Imagined Arsenal
• The Persistent Legacy: Germany's Place in the  Nuclear Order
• Russia's Policy in the Run-Up to the First North Korean nuclear Crisis, 1991-1993
• From the Peaceful Atom to the Peaceful Explosion
• Between Aid and Restriction: Changing Soviet Policies toward China's nuclear Weapons Program: 1954-1960
• The Elephant in the Room: The Soviet Union and India's Nuclear Program, 1967-1989

Research Updates

NPIHP Research Updates cast an analytical spotlight upon new accessions to the NPIHP Digital Archive. By showcasing and contextualizing new archival research through the NPIHP Research Updates series we aim to make leading-edge research on nuclear history available and accessible to a broad audience.

• Japan's Plutonium Overhang
• The Inter-Church Peace Council and the Nuclear Arms Race
• Ukraine and Soviet Nuclear History
• Exploring Nuclear Latency
• Forecasting Nuclear War
• Advance Warning: Reagan and South Africa's Nuclear Testing Promise
• PM Begin Writes to Margaret Thatcher in 1979, warning of the threat posed by Pakistan's Nuclear Program
• The Making of the Nuclear suppliers Group, 1974-1976
• Proliferation Watch: US intelligence Assessments of Potential Nuclear Powers, 1977-2001
• The Pervez Case, Pakistani Nuclear Procurement, and Reagan Administration Nonproliferation Policy, 1987
• Present at the Undoing: The Netherlands and the Multilateral Force
• The Avner Cohen Collection
• Resolving the Dilemma of Nuclear Mistrust, From Foz do Iguacu to the Constitution of ABACC (1985-1991)
• Brazil's 1975 Nuclear Agreement with West Germany
• The Brazilian Proposal to Renounce Peaceful Nuclear Explosions and the Argentine Response (1983-1985)
• Brazilian Nuclear Cooperation with the People's Republic of China
• Brazil-Iraq Nuclear Cooperation
• From the Indian Bomb to the Establishment of the First Brazil-Argentina Nuclear Agreement (1974-1980)
• The First Attempt at Argentine-Brazilian Nuclear cooperation and the Argentine Response, 1967-1972
• Brazil-South Africa Nuclear Relations
• Israel's Quest for Yellowcake: The Secret Argentina-Israel Connection, 1963-1966
• Intelligence Reports and Estimates of Nuclear Proliferation History Since 1966
• The Clinton Administration and the Indian Nuclear Test that Did Not Happen, 1995-1996
• Origins and Evolution of the Brazilian Nuclear Program (1947-2011)
• New Documents Show US Feared Proliferation of Nuclear Technology in 1960s
• New Documents Spotlight Reagan-era Tensions over Pakistani Nuclear Program
• Whither Pax Atomica? - The Euromissles Crisis and the Peace Movement of the early 1980s
• The Nixon Administration and the Indian Nuclear Program, 1972-1974
• U.S. and British Combined to Delay Pakistani Nuclear Weapons Program in 1978-1981, Declassified Documents Show
• U.S. Secret Assistance to the French Nuclear Program, 1969-1975: From "Fourth Country" to Strategic Partner
• Explaining Dutch Reservations About NATO's 1979 Dual-Track Decision

Issue Briefs

NPIHP Issue Briefs offer useful insights and perspectives on contemporary nuclear policy issues from international nuclear historians. More than just formulaic ‘lessons from history,’ these Issue Briefs provide archivally-grounded background, context and nuance to current issues for political scientists and government officials who are confronted with complex nuclear challenges.

• Increasing Transparency at the IAEA Archives
• The Breach: Ukraine's Territorial integrity and the Budapest Memorandum
• How to Become a Customer: Lessons from the Nuclear negotiations between the U.S. Canada, and Romania in the 1960s
• Chasing Mirages: Australia and the U.S. Nuclear Umbrella in the Asia-Pacific

Blog Posts

Sources and Methods presents fresh archival evidence and new insights into contemporary international history.

• Atomizing Iran: Eisenhower and the Bomb
• India's Nuclear Policy: China, Pakistan, and Two Distinct Nuclear Trajectories
• West Germany's Secret Nuclear Assistance to Iran
• The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the German Nuclear Question Part 1, 1954-1964
• The Long History of Brazil's Nuclear Submarine Program
• Bureaucrats in Non-Proliferation Policymaking
• Unearthing Soviet Secrets in Ukraine's Archives
• Giving Up on the Bomb: Revisiting Libya's Decision to Dismantle its Nuclear Program
• Documenting the Soviet ICBM Program
• Hawks and Doves: China's First Nuclear Test and Indian Nuclear Thought
• Avoiding the Translation Trap
• The CIA and the Soviet Heavy Water Project
• Tracking Down Oral History Sources
• Sino-Soviet Nuclear Relations: An Alliance of Convenience?
• India's Nuclear History, Frozen in Time
• Talking History: Ten Lessons for Running an Oral History Project
• Nuclear Intelligence via Three Martinis 
• Desert Mystery: Intelligence Assessments of Israel's Nuclear Program
• Researching the Global Cold War in South Africa's Archives
• Nuclear Tests are Not What You Think
• Spies in South Africa
• Strategic Gossip
• Excavating South Korea's Nuclear History
• Why International Histories Need More Canadian Sources
• Latin America's Nuclear Weapon Free Zone: Fifty Years Later

Conference Reports

The Critical Oral History Conference (COHC) Series fills the gaps in the available documentary records and adds greater nuance to even well-understood events in the history of nuclear proliferation. The series features the testimonies of veteran diplomatic and intelligence officials from around the world.

• The Origins of Nuclear Cooperation

Contributors

• Alex Bollfrass
• Andreas Lutsch
• Anna Weichselbraun
• Annie Tracy Samuel
• Antonio Ruy de Almedia Silva
• Ariana Tabatabai
• Asif Siddiqi
• Avner Cohen
• Balázs Szalontai
• Bastiaan Bouwman
• Benjamin B. Fischer
• Bernd Schaefer
• Bill Streifer
• Christine M. Leah
• Crispin Rovere
• Dani K. Nedal
• Dennis Romberg
• Elisabeth Roehrlich
• Eliza Gheorghe
• Harsh V. Pant
• Jayita Sarkar
• Jeffrey T. Richelson
• Jonah Glick-Unterman
• José Augusto Abreu de Moura
• Joseph F. Pilat
• Khine Thant Su
• Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer
• Mariana Budjeryn
• Matias Spektor
• Michal Onderco
• Nate Jones
• Nate Jones
• Nicholas Wheeler
• Oleksandr Cheban
• Polina Sinovets
• Robin Möser
• Rodrigo Mallea
• Ruud van Dijk
• Ryan Alexander Musto
• Se Young Jang
• Sergey Radchenko
• Shen Zhihua
• Stephan Kieninger
• Susan Colbourn
• Vivek Prahladan
• William Burr
• Yafeng Xia
• Yogesh Joshi