New Global Disclosure Release Reveals State Department’s Role in Reversing US Withdrawal from South Korea in Mid-Seventies

Executive Seminar in National and International Affairs, 1981-82 Read the report. Robert G. Rich, “U.S. Ground Force Withdrawal From Korea: A Case Study in National Security Decision Making”, Executive Seminar in National and International Affairs, 1981-82. This case study is taken from an Executive Seminar in National and International Affairs that was released to the […]

Nautilus Reports on DPRK Negotiation Strategy

“Negotiating with North Koreans: The U.S. Experience at Panmunjom” By Reed R. Probst, May 16, 1977 This study project was prepared for the US Army War College and released to the Nautilus Institute Under the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Read the report. The first session of working group meetings between the US, DPRK, […]

Implications Of Nuclear Proliferation

“The genie is out of the bottle” Colonel Daniel M. O’Shei U.S. Army Read the report. Daniel M. O’Shei, Colonel, U.S. Army “Implications of Nuclear Proliferation”, Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy, 1975-76. This case study is taken from a Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy that was released to the Nautilus Institute under the US Freedom […]

Nautilus Reports on Proliferation in U.S. Defense Policy

“Implications of Indian and/or Japanese Nuclear Proliferation for U.S. Defense Policy Planning” By R. M. Lawrence, W. R. Van Cleave, and S. E. Young, Strategic Studies Center, January 1974 This study project was prepared for the Advanced Research Projects Agency and released to the Nautilus Institute Under the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Read […]

U.S. Navy Rejects State Department Proposal To Offload Nuclear Weapons Before Entering Japan

During preparations for homeporting the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Midway (CV-41) to Yokosuka in 1972, the U.S. State Department proposed offloading the carrier’s nuclear weapons prior to entering Japan. This proposal was rejected by the Chief of Naval Operations, however, as “operationally unacceptable.” The Japanese government nonetheless has assured publicly that U.S. aircraft carriers homeported […]

The Reduction of Tension in Korea Vol. I

Peter W. Colm, Rosemary Hayes, Karl F. Spielmann, Nathan N. White Institute for Defense Analysis June 1972 Read the full report here. Peter W. Colm, Rosemary Hayes, Karl F. Spielmann, Nathan N. White, “The Reduction of Tension in Korea Vol. I”, Institute for Defense Analysis, 1972. Released under US Freedom of Information Act to Nautilus […]

U.S. State Department “Assures” Denmark Of No Nuclear Weapons In Greenland

Following the crash of a nuclear-armed B-52 bombers off Thule Air Base in Greenland in January 1968, and subsequent negotiations between the U.S. and Danish governments, the U.S. State Department assured Denmark that it will not store nuclear weapons in Greenland or overfly Greenland without the consent of the Danish government.   Full Text: DEPARTMENT […]