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U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe
Issue Paper

A review of post-Cold War policy, force levels, and war planning.

The Moscow Treaty
Index

The documents in this index offer analyses from NRDC's nuclear progam of serious deficiencies in the "Moscow Treaty" -- the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty signed by Presidents Bush and Putin in May 2002.

Snapshots from the U.S. Nuclear War Plan
Photo Album

These maps, diagrams and charts -- produced by NRDC's nuclear war plans project -- offer a snapshot of what a nuclear attack on Russia would look like under the top-secret U.S. nuclear war plan, with target locations, fallout clouds, and fatalities. They drive home the grotesque results that would occur if nuclear weapons were used; common sense demands the abolition of the current plan in favor of a "saner" plan that rests on different assumptions, with far fewer warheads.

Exposing the U.S. Nuclear War Plan
News

The Cold War is over -- so why does the United States still aim thousands of nuclear warheads at Russia? The answer lies in the top-secret U.S. nuclear war plan. This article is a user-friendly overview of a June 2001 report from NRDC's nuclear program that exposes the long-hidden assumptions that underlie the war plan, and calls for new thinking that can bring deeper nuclear arms reductions and a safer global future.

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