The High Energy Weapons Archive

Announcements and Reviews

Nuclear Wallpaper Image Collection

The Big, Big, List of Nuclear Related Links

• Fission Physics [1996]
• Fusion Physics [1996]
• Basic Principles of Fission Weapons [1996]
• Gun Assembly [1996]
• Implosion Assembly [1996]
• The Teller-Ulam Design: Staged Radiation Implosion [1997]
• A Note on Radiation and Nuclear Blast Damage [1994]
• Glossary of Nuclear Weapons Terms [1994]

• 0.0 Introduction
• 1.0 Types of Nuclear Weapons
• 2.0 Introduction to Nuclear Weapon Physics and Design
• 3.0 Matter, Energy, and Radiation Hydrodynamics
• 4.0 Engineering and Design of Nuclear Weapons
• 5.0 Effects of Nuclear Explosions
• 6.0 Nuclear Materials
• 7.0 Nuclear Weapon Nations and Arsenals
• 8.0 The First Nuclear Weapons
• 9.0 Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• 10.0 Chronology For The Origin Of Atomic Weapons
• 11.0 Questions and Answers
• 12.0 Useful Tables
• 13.0 Bibliography
• 14.0 Nuclear Weapons FAQ Change History

• Respository of Nuclear Effects Computer Simulations and Models
• Illustrated Effects of Nuclear Weapons
• Plutonium Manufacture and Fabrication (illustrated)
• The Smyth Report: Atomic Energy for Military Purposes; the first public description of atomic technology, released in 1945 and still an excellent introduction
• Nuclear Tests
  • Comprehensive List of All Nuclear Explosions by Jim Lawson [8/1996]
  • Official List of Underground Nuclear Explosions in Nevada [1995]
• Bibliographic Material
  • Some References [1995]
  • The Big List of Nuclear Weapons Publications [1995]
• Links to Important Information Sites
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library. Thousands of Los Alamos reports are available on-line.
  • DOE Information Bridge, Excellent link for accessing millions of pages of on-line information
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Documents On-Line
  • Government Accounting Office Report Page. A valuable resource. Go to GAO Access Search Page, use keyword search (like "nuclear"). Many FY 95 and later reports are available online
  • Complete Archive Site for the late lamented U.S. Office of Technolgy Assessment (OTA). Hosted by Princeton Univ.
  • Federation of American Scientists: Nuclear resourcesLots of stuff here, browse around.
  • Stephen Schwartz's list of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Facilities
  • Brookings Institute Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Home Page
  • Gregory Walker's Trinity Site
  • The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, this site now hosts the text of many valuable articles, with on-line search capability.
  • Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Nuclear Information (new upgrades in progress)
    • The Internet and the Bomb: A Research Guide to Policy and Information about Nuclear Weapons, at the NRDC, the best collection of nuclear-related links in existence.
    • Nuclear Data Table Index For up-to-date data on nuclear forces for all powers (and more), this is the place to go!
    • NRDC table of global nuclear stockpiles from the dawn of the Atomic Age to the present
    • 1996 Strategic Nuclear Forces for the U.S. and Russia
  • Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). Excellent repository of on-line materials
  • British American Security Information Council (BASIC). An independent research organization that analyzes government policies - a very good site, check out its on-line reports on nuclear issues, e.g. "The Bug in the Bomb" a study of bombs and the Y2K problem.
  • Center for Defense Information (CDI). An independent military policy research and analysis organization, has many on-line resources.
  • Handbook On The Medical Aspects Of NBC Defensive Operations, FM 8-9, the official U.S. Army Field Manual on the effects and casualty treatment of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons
  • Plutonium: The First Fifty Years from the US DOE
  • Drawing Back the Curtain of Secrecy: Restricted Data Declassification Decisions, 1946 to the Present (January 1, 2000). Version RDD-6. Lots of interesting bits of information about nuclear weapons.
  • T-2 Nuclear Information Service. Located at Los Alamos, this is the site to go to first for nuclear physics data.
  • Nuclear Data Center of the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI). This is an excellent source of nuclear physics data also.
  • Greenpeace Report on dual capable technology (check out Figs 4, 5, 6 and 7)
  • Sandia Lab News
  • U.S. Dept. of Energy (Nevada) Historical Information Home Page, regretably the DOE Nevada site has removed its HTML-format "On-Line Catalog of All U.S. Nuclear Tests", but the same information is available in an Acrobat (.pdf) format document accessible from this page.
  • The "CIA Electronic Document Release Center" hosts downloadable declassified documents. Do a full text search on "nuclear" or "atomic" to see listings of useful documents.
• Other Sites With Nuclear Test Photos
  • LANL Test Photo Page
  • U.S. Dept. of Energy (Nevada) Test Photo Page
• Weapons and Related Technologies
  • Pulse Power Switching Technology [10/96]
• Where to Buy Nuclear Weapons Related Materials
  • Otowi Station - bookstore at Los Alamos
  • National Atomic Museum Store