The Internet and the Bomb:
A Research Guide to Policy and Information about Nuclear Weapons


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CHAPTER TWO: U.S. EXECUTIVE BRANCH ORGANIZATIONS
Department of State

Department of State Homepage
http://www.state.gov/
gopher://gopher.state.gov
The newly designed homepage provides pointers to organizational information, press briefings, statements and testimony and can be searched at http://search.state.gov/eg.acgi . The Department of State Foreign Affairs Network (DOSFAN) Gopher site (gopher://dosfan.lib.uic.edu or http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu ) is an archive for materials 1993-present, and was created as a cooperative initiative with the University of Illinois at Chicago Library. It can be searched at gopher://gopher.state.gov:70/77Index or gopher://dosfan.lib.uic.edu:70/7A:Gopher:1:7.

Secretary of State Homepage
http://secretary.state.gov/
Searchable homepage of statements, testimony, and background.


Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

ACDA Homepage
http://www.acda.gov
The ACDA homepage includes organizational information, biographies of key officials, and has extensive links to fact sheets and texts relating to arms control initiatives and obligations.

ACDA Annual Report, 1995
http://www.acda.gov/reports/anreport.htm

ACDA Activites and Arms Control Commissions in Geneva
http://www3.itu.ch/MISSIONS/US/bb/acda.html
From the Briefing Book on International Organizations published by USIA.


U.S. Information Agency

USIA Homepage
http://www.usia.gov/
gopher://198.80.36.82/
The agency explains and supports U.S. foreign policy through educational and cultural activities. USIA maintains over 200 posts in 140 countries where it is known as the U.S. Information Service (USIS).

Voice of America (VOA)
http://www.voa.gov/
gopher://gopher.voa.gov/1
Radio service that is part of the USIA, the sites include complete program schedules and transcripts of broadcasts in dozens of languages.


U.S. Mission to the United Nations

Homepage
http://www.undp.org/missions/usa
Includes statements by the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.


U.S. Mission in Geneva

Homepage
http://www3.itu.ch/MISSIONS/US/
The homepage of the USIS in Geneva with news about the U.S. Permanent Mission to the United Nations, and links to 60 major international organizations in Geneva, as well as excellent news briefings and background materials.


The Internet and the Bomb: A Research Guide to Policy and Information about Nuclear Weapons is written and maintained by William M. Arkin and Robert S. Norris. Any questions, comments or suggestions should be sent to the authors at warkin@igc.org and rnorris@nrdc.org. This page was last updated 5/1/97


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