Nuclear Weapons and Security Policy: Past and Present
Nuclear Basics

Credits

  • Page 01: U.S. military nuclear weapon testing in the Marshall Islands, 1946

    United States Department of Defense 

  • Page 01: 1980s Nuclear weapon protest

    Wellcome Collection

  • Page 01: International symbol for radiation

    Technische Regeln für Arbeitsstätten - Sicherheits- und Gesundheitsschutzkennzeichnung - Quelle

  • Page 02: A Fission Chain Reaction - Clip

    Excerpted from NOVA: "Hunting the Elements." Third party materials courtesy of Getty Images.

    ; © 2012 WGBH Educational Foundation. All Rights Reserved.

  • Page 03: Tokyo after the March 1945 bombing

    National Archives, photo no. 204837506

  • Page 03: Hiroshima after the August 1945 atomic bombing

    National Archives, photo no. 22345671

  • Page 04: Why Only 9 Countries Have Nuclear Weapons - Clip

    c. 2018 KQED San Francisco

  • Page 05: Nuclear reactors at Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant in Tennessee

    Photorush

  • Page 05: 2023 U.N. climate meeting, which established new nuclear energy goals

    IAEA Imagebank

  • Page 05: Workers in protective gear assessing damage to a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan

    EPA_Image/Pond5

  • Page 06: Nuclear Reactors vs. Nuclear Weapons - Clip

    Movie clips from:
    Bad Boys (1995), Columbia Pictures

    Chain Reaction (1996), 20th Century Fox

    Nuclear test film: https://archive.org/details/gov.doe.0800013, https://archive.org/details/gov.doe.0800003, https://archive.org/details/gov.doe.0800000, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwpgmEvlRpM

    Aircraft crash test from Sandia National Laboratories (1988)

    ; MIT