Gorbachev, Mikhail, here, here, here
Greece, here
Grigorievich, Valentin, here
Grotius, Hugh, here
Groves, Leslie, here, here, here, here, here
Guam, here, here, here, here, here
Guernica (Picasso), here
Guernica, Spain, here
Gulf oil spill, here
Gulf War, here
Habiger, Eugene, here
Haig, Douglas, here
hair-trigger alert, here, here, here, here
Haldeman, H. R., here, here
Halperin, Morton, here, here, here
Halsey, William, Jr., here
Hamburg, Germany, here, here, here, here
Hanford Site, here, here
Hansell, Haywood S., here, here
Hare, Raymond, here, here, here
Harris, Arthur, here, here
Hawaii, here, here, here, here, here
Hawkins, David, here, here
H-bombs. See also thermonuclear weapons
A-bombs compared to, and replaced with, here, here, here, here, here, here
death estimates for, here, here
Ellsberg’s father and, here, here, here, here
fighter-bombers armed with, here
first droppable, tested by U.S., here, here
fission bomb as trigger to, here, here, here
Manhattan Project and, here
nuclear fusion and, here, here
reality of, here
Teller and development of, here, here, here
Hemingway, Ernest, here
Herken, Gregg, here
Hersey, John, here, here
Hersh, Seymour, here, here, here, here
Hershberg, James, here
High Gear, here
Hilsman, Roger, here
Hirohito (Emperor of Japan), here
Hiroshima (Hersey), here
Hiroshima, bombing of, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Hitch, Charlie, here, here
Hitler, Adolf
atomic bomb development and, here, here
British and American terror-bombing and, here, here
city-bombing and, here, here, here
madman reputation of, here
nuclear war risks and, here, here, here
Poland invaded by, here, here
Stalin and Soviets equated with, here, here
strategic bombing and, here, here, here, here, here
Warsaw attack, here
Ho Chi Minh, here, here
Hoffman, David, here
Hoffman, Fred, here, here
Holloway, Bruce K., here, here, here
Horelick, Arnold, here
Hsieh, Alice, here
Huchthausen, Peter, here
Humphrey, Hubert, here
Hunter, Duncan, here
Hurricane Katrina, here
Hussein, Saddam, here
ICBMs. See intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)
Ideal (I) clearance, here
incendiary bombs, here, here, here, here
India, here, here, here, here, here
industrial targets, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
In Retrospect (McNamara), here
intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). See also Minuteman missiles
dismantling of, here
in Soviet Union, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
in United States, here, here, here
interference in dropping nuclear warheads, here, here
intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM), here, here, here, here, here, here
international security affairs (ISA), here, here, here, here
Iran, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Iran nuclear deal, here
Iraq, here, here, here, here, here, here
Iraq War, here
IRBM. See intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM)
iron curtain, here
ISA. See international security affairs (ISA)
ISIS, here, here
Israel, here, here, here, here
Italy, here, here, here, here, here, here
Iwakuni, here, here, here, here, here
Jackson, Henry, here
Japan. See also Hiroshima, bombing of; Nagasaki, bombing of; Tokyo, Japan
Air Force bases in, here, here, here
atomic weapons used on, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
attacks on Pearl Harbor and Philippines, here, here, here
bombing of cities in, here, here, here, here
bombings of Chinese cities, here, here
CINCPAC communications with, here
deaths predicted for general war plans, here, here
firebombing of, here
incendiary bombs, here
Kunsan communications with, here, here
Nanking massacre by, here
nuclear weapons forbidden by treaty with, here
nuclear weapons secretly kept in, here, here, here
surrender of, here, here
U.S. extended deterrence over, here
U.S. first use against, here
Johnson, Gerald W., here
Johnson, Lyndon
delegation of authority and, here
Ellsberg’s guidance and war planning under, here
Ho Chi Minh and, here
LeMay and, here
McNamara’s advice to, here, here, here
nuclear war planning and, here, here, here, here, here
risk accepted by, here
Vietnam War and, here, here, here
Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)
alternate command centers for, here
atomic weapons supply and, here, here
Berlin crisis and, here
BMEWS warnings and, here
chain of command and, here
control system shortcomings and, here, here
Cuban missile crisis and, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
death estimates for general war by, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
delegation of authority and, here
Ellsberg’s list of questions for, here, here, here
general war definition and, here
guidance for nuclear war plans issued to, here
JSCP and, here, here
night bombing and, here
nuclear war planning, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
secretary of defense and, here, here, here
Soviet bomb testing and, here
Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP), here
Annex C of (See Annex C of JSCP)
BNSP general war section draft and, here
briefing on, here, here
Ellsberg’s 1961 guidance for, here
Ellsberg’s list of questions for JCS on, here, here
JSCP-63, here
limited war concept, here
Nitze and, here
president’s viewing of, here, here
Top Secret documents associated with, here
Jones, David, here
JSCP. See Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP)
just war doctrine, here
Kadena Air Base, here, here, here, here, here
Kahn, Albert, here
Kahn, Herman
discussion group on responses to strategic threat and, here
Doomsday Machine envisioned by, here, here, here, here
fallout shelters and, here
Soviet missile estimates and, here
spasm concept of general war and, here
On Thermonuclear War, here, here, here
U.S. first strike consequences and, here, here, here
Kantor, MacKinlay, here, here, here, here
Kaplan, Fred, here, here
Karakayev, Sergey, here
Katz, A
mron, here
Kaufmann, Bill
counterforce and, here, here
discussion group on responses to strategic threat and, here
McNamara briefed by (1961), here
McNamara’s speech drafted by, here, here
nuclear war planning goal, here
Trinkl and McGarvey relied on by, here
war fighting and, here
Kaysen, Carl, here, here, here, here, here, here
KC-97 tankers, here
Keegan, George J., Jr., here
Kehler, Randy, here
Kennedy, John F.
Acheson’s advice to, here
Bay of Pigs and, here
Berlin crisis and, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
BNSP and, here
Cuban missile crisis and, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
deaths predicted for nuclear war and, here
delegation of authority and, here, here, here, here, here
Ellsberg’s guidance and war planning under, here
flexible response and, here, here
general war plans and, here, here
JCS and control system under, here
JSCP under administration of, here
Khrushchev and, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
LeMay and, here
McNamara’s advice to, here, here, here, here
missile gap and, here, here, here, here
nuclear war planning and, here, here
nuclear weapons inherited by, here
question to JCS about predicted deaths, here
at Vienna Summit, here
war planning policy changes and, here, here, here
Kennedy, Robert, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Kent, Glenn, here
Keyhole (K) clearance, here, here, here
Khrushchev, Nikita
Berlin crisis and, here, here, here
Berlin Wall and, here
Cuban missile crisis and, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Cuban missiles dismantled by, here
Gary Powers shot down by, here
Gilpatric’s speech and, here, here
Kennedy and, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
McNamara’s speech and, here
missile production bluffs by, here, here, here, here, here, here
NORAD warning and, here
ouster of, here
predicted rise of, here
ultimatum of, here, here, here, here
at Vienna Summit, here, here
Khrushchev, Sergei, here
Khrushchev’s Cold War (Fursenko and Naftali), here
killing a nation, here, here, here
King, Ernest, here
King, Martin Luther, Jr., here
Kissinger, Henry, here, here, here, here, here, here
Kistiakowsky, George, here, here, here
Kivette, Frederick N., here, here, here, here
Komer, Bob, here, here, here, here, here, here
Korea, here, here, here, here. See also North Korea; South Korea
Korean War, here, here, here, here, here
Krieger, David, here
Kubrick, Stanley, here, here, here, here, here, here
Kucinich, Dennis, here, here
Kunsan Air Base, here, here, here
Kuter, Lawrence, here
Kuwait, here
laboratory weapons, here
Lancaster bomber, here
land-based missiles, here, here, here, here. See also Minuteman missiles; silo-based land missiles
Landing Ship, Tank (LST), here, here, here, here, here, here
Laos, here, here, here, here
LaRocque, Eugene, here
Latham, Donald, here
launch on warning (LOW), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Laurence, William, here
Leahy, William D., here, here
Lebanon crisis (1958), here, here
Le Duc Tho, here
LeMay, Curtis
accusation of Ellsberg by, here
atomic bombs and, here, here
B-29s and, here
B-70 program and, here
bombing of cities and, here
civilian deaths and, here, here
Cuban missile crisis and, here, here, here
delegation of authority and, here
firebombing and, here, here
Kennedy’s appointment of, here
Minuteman force size and, here
Mission with LeMay, here, here, here, here
nuclear war planning and, here
presidential command authority and, here
SAC and, here, here, here
satellite proposal and, here
Soviet airfields and, here
Lemnitzer, Lyman, here
Leningrad, Soviet Union, here, here
Libby, Willard, here
Libya, here
Liebman, Dave, here, here
limited nuclear options, here, here, here, here
limited war, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
limpet mines, here
Lindley, Ernest K., here
Lippmann, Walter, here, here
local war, here
London, England, here, here, here, here, here, here
Los Alamos, here, here, here, here
LOW. See launch on warning (LOW)
LST. See Landing Ship, Tank (LST)
Lucky Dragon fishing boat, here
Luftwaffe, here, here, here
Lukeman, Bob, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
M-50 thermite incendiary, here
M-69 incendiary bomb, here
MacArthur, Douglas, here, here, here
Madman Theory (Nixon’s), here, here, here, here, here, here
madness, here
magnesium bombs, here, here, here, here
Maine (battleship), here
Malinovsky, Rodion, here, here
Manhattan Project
atmospheric ignition concerns and, here, here, here, here
brotherhood among scientists of, here
fear of Nazi crash bomb program, here
formation of, here
Germany and atomic bomb and, here, here
Groves and, here
H-bomb crash program proposed for, here, here
launch of, here
long-range implications of nuclear weapons and, here
security breach investigations within, here
sense of foreboding in, here
Marianas, here, here
Marine Corps, U.S., here, here, here, here, here
Mark 28 thermonuclear weapons, here, here, here
Marshall, Andrew, here, here, here
Marshall, George, here, here, here
Maslennikov, Ivan Semenovich, here
massive retaliation doctrine, here
Matthews, Chris, here
McCain, John, here
McCone, John, here, here
McElroy, Neil, here
McGarvey, Dave, here
McNamara, Robert
air alert discontinued by, here
Berlin crisis and, here
BNSP draft and, here
central war term and, here
Clawson’s letter to, here
Cuban missile crisis and, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
flexible response and, here
at Havana conference (2002), here
Ho Chi Minh and, here
JCS and control system and, here
JSCP briefing and, here
Kaufmann’s briefing on war fighting/counterforce to, here, here, here, here
Minuteman ICBMs and, here, here
missile gap and, here, here, here
Nitze and, here, here, here
nuclear war planning and, here, here, here
Secretary of Defense Guidance on War Planning and, here, here, here, here, here
speech at NATO conference, here, here, here, here, here, here
speech at University of Michigan, here, here
speech to American Bar Association, here
U.S. initiation of nuclear war and, here, here
withhold option on China, here
McNaughton, John, here, here
Mediterranean, here, here
medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBM), here, here, here, here
MiGs, here
Miller, Franklin C., here
mine-shaft gap, here
Minuteman III missile force, here, here
Minuteman missiles, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
MIRVs. See multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs)
missile gap
illusory nature of, here, here, here, here, here
Kennedy and, here, here, here, here
McNamara and, here, here, here
RAND studies and, here, here
SAC and, here, here
as term, here
USAF estimates, here, here, here, here, here, here
missile trades, here, here
Mission with LeMay (LeMay and Kantor), here, here, here, here
Mitchell, Billy, here, here, here
Mongoose project, here
morale effect, here, here, here, here, here
Moratorium, here, here
Morris, Robert, here, here
Moscow, Russia
Dead Hand system and, here, here
as target, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
totalitarian control by, here
withholding of attack on, here
MRBM. See medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBM)
multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), here
Mussolini, Benito, here
Naftali, Timothy, here
Nagasaki, bombing of, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Nanking massacre, here
napalm bombs, here, here, here, here
NASA. See National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, here
National Academy of Sciences, here
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), here
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, here
National Defense Education Act, here
National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs), here, here, here, here, here
National Security Act (1958), here
National Security Council (NSC), here, here
National Security Council Paper NSC-68, here
NATO
Berlin crisis and, here, here
first-use policies, here, here, here, here, here
formation of, here
general war targets, here
Khrushchev and, here, here
McNamara’s speech at conference of, here, here, here, here, here, here
missiles in Turkey, here, here, here, here, here, here, here