These weblinks can provide students and teachers with useful documents, images, maps, timelines, and essays about issues related to nuclear armaments since the development of the first atomic bomb.
The Manhattan Project: An Online Exhibit
From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, this online exhibit about the Manhattan Project includes primary source documents and photos from nuclear physicists, government officials, and other individuals associated with the development of the first atomic bomb.
The Decision to Drop the Bomb
The Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum’s online collection contains correspondence, press releases, and declassified documents categorized by topics specific to the Truman administration's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Atoms for Peace
This Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum website provides President Eisenhower’s speeches and other documents pertinent to the topic of maintaining global security in the face of nuclear threats.
Race for the Superbomb
This companion website to the film shown on PBS includes a timeline from 1941-1963, essays on people and events, and a nuclear weapons test map.
Teaching With Documents: Photographs and Pamphlet About Nuclear Fallout
This National Archives and Records Administration web page provides teachers with documents and teaching activities regarding nuclear fallout.
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
This John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum web page provides educators with a brief history of the Limited Test Ban Treaty along with links to audio and transcripts of Kennedy's June 10, 1963 American University Speech and July 26, 1963 Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
The Making of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1958-1963
This web page not only provides an excellent essay from the National Security Archive, but also includes links to a large number of primary sources.
The Opper Project: Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach History
"Area of Agreement” (1954)
“Nuclear freeze scenario” (1982)
"You'll Not Get Rich (Rat-Tattatta-Tat) You're in the Arms Race Now!” (1982)
The Opper Project, an online collection of historic editorial cartoon, includes links to three cartoons depicting issues related to nuclear arms.
Berlin Wall - From the Archives
This Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library website captures Reagan's speeches, reflections of world leaders, and remarks on the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Tracking Nuclear Proliferation
The PBS Online Newshour provides in-depth coverage of issues related to nuclear proliferation, including an interactive map of nuclear development and tests from 1945 to 2006.
Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization
This Commission, associated with the signatories of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, provides a wealth of information on the history of nuclear testing and treaties aimed at ending nuclear proliferation. (Please note that the site loads very slowly.)
Chronology of Key Events in Nuclear Non-Proliferation
From the International Atomic Energy Agency, this web page provides a chronology of key events in Nuclear Non-Proliferation from 1945 to the present.
Timeline of Nuclear Treaties
From the Office of the Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters, this site includes a timeline of nuclear treaties from 1959 to 2002.
Please visit the websites of these other Presidential Libraries for additional helpful information:
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum
Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum
William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum