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Document
1 (1 p.)
Date: April 2, 1956
Title: Policy on Use of Atomic Weapons
Originating office: Special Assistant to the Secretary of State
for Disarmament and Atomic Energy
Location of document: National Archives. Record Group 59. Department
of State Decimal Files, 1955-1959. 711.5611
Document
2 (3 pp.)
Date: April 5, 1956
Title: [Letter from Secretary of Defense to Secretary of State]
Originating office: Secretary of Defense
Location of document: National Archives. Record Group 59. Department
of State Decimal Files, 1955-1959. 711.5/4-556
Document
3 (4 pp.)
Date: January 17, 1957
Title: Authorization for the Expenditure of Nuclear Weapons
Originating office: Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
Location of document: National Archives. Record Group 59. Policy
Planning Staff Records, 1957-1961. Lot 67D548. Box 204. Stelle, C., Chron
Document
4 (1 p.)
Date: April 20, 1957
Title: Report on Secretary Dulles' Meeting with Secretary Wilson
and Admiral Radford on Advance Presidential Authorization for the Expenditure
of Nuclear Weapons -- April 19, 1957
Originating office: Special Assistant to the Secretary of State
for Disarmament and Atomic Energy
Location of document: National Archives. Record Group 59. Department
of State Decimal Files, 1955-1959. 711.5611/4-2357
Document
5 (2 pp.)
Date: April 22, 1957
Title: Advanced Presidential Authority for the Expenditure of
Nuclear Weapons
Originating office: Assistant Secretary of State for European
Affairs
Location of document: National Archives. Record Group 59. Department
of State Decimal Files, 1955-1959. 711.5611/4-2259
Document
6 (4 pp.)
Date: May 1, 1957
Title: Policy Regarding Use of Atomic Weapons
Originating office: Office of the Executive Secretary, National
Security Council
Location of document: National Archives. Record Group 59. Department
of State Decimal Files, 1955-1959. 711.5611/5/157
Document
7 (1 p.)
Date: May 15, 1957
Title: Policy Regarding Use of Atomic Weapons
Originating office: Department of State
Location of document: National Archives. Record Group 59. Department
of State Decimal Files, 1955-1959. 711.5611/5-1557
Document 8 (6 pp.)
 Later
release of this document.
Date: May 16, 1957
Title: Policy Regarding Use of Atomic Weapons
Originating office: Office of the Executive Secretary, National
Security Council
Location of document: Lyndon B. Johnson Library. National Security
File. Intelligence File. Box 9. Meetings, Records, Memoranda on Use of
Nuclear Weapons
Document
9 (5 pp.)
Date: September 3, 1958
Title: Analysis of Draft "Implementing Instructions" Submitted
to the President for Approval by Letter from the Secretary of State and
the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Dated August 23, 1958
Originating office: Office of the Executive Secretary, National
Security Council
Location of document: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library. Office of
Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. NSC Series.
Briefing Notes Subseries. Box 1. AEC - Policy on Use of Atomic Weapons
Document 10 (5 pp.)
Later
release of this document.
Date: December 31, 1958
Title: Memorandum of Conference with the President, December
19, 1958 -- 2:30 p.m.
Originating office: Office of the Staff Secretary, Office of
the White House
Location of document: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library. Ann Whitman
File. Dwight D. Eisenhower Diaries. Box 38. Staff Notes, December 58 (1)
Document
11 (6 pp.)*
Date: c. December 1959
Title: Instructions for Expenditure of Nuclear Weapons in Emergency
Conditions
Originating office:
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Location of document: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library. Office of
Special Assistant for National Security Affairs. NSC Series. Subject Subseries.
Box 1. Atomic Weapons, Corr. and Background for Presidential Approval (5)
Document
12 (5 pp.)*
Date: c. December 1959
Title: Instructions for Expenditure of Nuclear Weapons in [Excised]
Originating office: Joint Chiefs of Staff
Location of document: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library. Office of
Special Assistant for National Security Affairs. NSC Series. Subject Subseries.
Box 1. Atomic Weapons, Corr. and Background for Presidential Approval (5)
Document
13 (5 pp.)*
Date: c. December 1959
Title: [Excised]
Originating office: Joint Chiefs of Staff
Location of document: Dwight D. Eisenhower Library. Office of
Special Assistant for National Security Affairs. NSC Series. Subject Subseries.
Box 1. Atomic Weapons, Corr. and Background for Presidential Approval (5)
Document
14 (2 pp.)
Date: January 30, 1961
Title: Memorandum From the President's Special Assistant for
National Security Affairs (Bundy) to President Kennedy
Originating office: Special Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs
Location of document: U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations
of the United States, 1961-1963. Vol. 8. (Washington: U.S. Government Printing
Office, 1996)
Document
15 (4 pp.)
Date: January 26, 1963
Title: State-Defense Meeting on Group I, II and IV Papers [Extract]
Originating office: Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department
of State
Location of document: National Archives. Record Group 59. Department
of State Records. Records of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Politico-Military
Affairs. Subject Files, 1961 1963. Box 2. Memoranda (5 of 5)
Document
16 (2 pp.)
Date: March 26, 1964
Title: Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense [With Cover Memorandum
from Bundy to Rusk]
Originating office: Executive Office of the President
Location of document: National Archives. Record Group 59. Department
of State Records. Formerly Top Secret Central Foreign Policy Files, 1964-1966.
Box 5. DEF 12 US
*This document is incomplete in the file at the
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