On December 17, 1963, shortly after President Kennedy’s assassination, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara gave NATO ministers a top secret briefing on the state of U.S. nuclear weapons and policy and reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to NATO under the new president.
The Original Skybolt Agreement (1960)
The text of the original Skybolt agreement signed by President Dwight Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on March 29, 1960, at Camp David. It also covered Polaris and the use of the Scottish submarine base Holy Loch, west of Glasgow.
The Risk of Suitcase Atomic Bombs Being Smuggled into the United States
A 1954 memorandum discussing the risk of an enemy smuggling a suitcase-style atomic bomb into the United States.