We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. This document collection has been compiled for the simple purpose of helping researchers students bypass the vast amount of secrecy surrounding the subject of how the U.
It is worth remembering that at its peak in , the U. But that was not all. Also hidden away in earth-covered storage bunkers spread throughout the U. But amongst the worst of our human foibles is our capacity to quickly forget. The U. Today, arguably the best research on America's Cold War era work on nuclear, chemical and biological weapons is being done by European and Canadian scholars, not Americans.
That is not to say that there is not already a rich body of work available for researchers and scholars to consult based on detailed research in various archives in the U.
Since the end of World War II, hundreds of books have been written about America's nuclear weapons, but very few of the authors who wrote these works availed themselves of the declassified documents that the U. Far fewer serious books have been written about America's chemical and biological warfare programs, for the simple reason that nuclear weapons were rightly deemed to be far more important in U.
But also because chemical and biological weapons were, to an important degree, treated as being far more secret than nuclear weapons, in large part because these weapons were widely viewed even inside the Pentagon as being more odious than nukes. But the real threat to the future of scholarly research on the American nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs is the U. National Archives.
