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Nuclear Proliferation/Non-proliferation

The Storied Past of 'Denuclearization'

Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae In meet in Pyongyang, September 2018. Source: President.go.kr

Waiting for the Bomb: PN Haksar and India’s Nuclear Policy in the 1960s

Image of PM Secretariat Letterhead

Waiting for the Bomb: PN Haksar and India’s Nuclear Policy in the 1960s

By: Yogesh Joshi

Nuclear History Resources at the Library of Congress

Ukraine and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Training tactical nuclear warheads at Makarov-1 outside of Kyiv, one of four nuclear warhead storage facilities (so called "Object-S") in Ukraine.

The Giulio Andreotti Archive: A First-Hand Account of NATO

Andreotti (Presidente del Consiglio) at a NATO Summit in Rome, November 1991. Credit: NATO Photo. Source: Istituto Luigi Sturzo, Busta 176_fascicolo 107_1991. Reproduction of this image without the prior authorization of the Istituto Luigi Sturzo is prohibited. All commercial use is forbidden.

Interpreting the Bomb: Ownership and Deterrence in Ukraine’s Nuclear Discourse

The SS-18 ICBM, produced in Soviet Ukraine, on display at the Strategic Missile Forces Museum in Pervomaysk. Photo by Polina Sinovets.

Interpreting the Bomb: Ownership and Deterrence in Ukraine’s Nuclear Discourse

By: Polina Sinovets and Mariana Budjeryn
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The Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (NPIHP) is a global network of individuals and institutions engaged in the study of international nuclear history through archival documents, oral history interviews, and other empirical sources. Recognizing that today’s toughest nuclear challenges have deep roots in the past, NPIHP transcends the East vs. West paradigm to work towards an integrated international history of nuclear weapon proliferation. NPIHP’s research fills in the blank and blurry pages of nuclear history in order to contribute to robust scholarship and effective policy decisions.

NPIHP was founded thanks to a generous grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. // Read more

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Christian F. Ostermann
Director, History and Public Policy Program; Cold War International History Project; North Korea Documentation Project; Nuclear Proliferation International History Project
Leopoldo Nuti
Co-Director, Nuclear Proliferation International History Project
Charles Kraus
Senior Program Associate, History and Public Policy Program
Kian Byrne
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