U.S. Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955–1968 U.S. Nuclear History: Nuclear Arms and Politics in the Missile Age, 1955–1968 Access information: Access on and off-campus. Description: This collection, the first part of a series, comprehensively documents major developments in U.S. nuclear weapons policies and programs from the mid-1950s through 1968, the period that set the nuclear stage for the decades of the Cold War that followed. Given the importance of the nuclear competition to superpower tensions during the post-World War II era, not only as a source of friction in itself but as an element that made the tensions inconceivably dangerous, the documents in this collection introduce the reader to one of the critical inner mechanisms of the Cold War. Coverage: 1955-1968. This article was published on 2024-08-21
