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February 21, 1962	Radio Liberty Policy Position Statement: U.S. Resumption of Atmospheric Nuclear Tests Radio Liberty outlines its perspective on U.S. nuclear testing, specifying that its goal is to provide credible information, convince listeners and that the resumption of nuclear testing is for self defense.
March 27, 1962	Memorandum, Catharine Depuy to Howland H. Sargeant, 'Memorandum for the Record, March 20, 1962' AMCOMLIB policy official Dupuy expresses concern about characterization of her efforts to obtain background materials on U.S. resumption of nuclear testing.
October 28, 1966	The Issue of Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in the Conversations of Comrade Gromyko with US Government Officials During the 21st Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) This document includes accounts of several conversations between Soviet officials and US diplomats, including Andrei Gromyko for the Soviets, and Dean Rusk and Arthur Goldberg for the Americans. The most pressing topic discussed during these meetings was figuring out mutually acceptable language to mollify Soviet demands that the NPT contain explicit prohibitions on the transfer of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear countries not just directly but through a military alliance, namely, NATO, remembering previous US attempts to nuclearize NATO through the Multilateral Force (MLF). Some attention is paid to fears not just of the Soviet Union but the US and other NATO allies as well about the FRG acquiring nuclear weapons. In addition to the focus on the semantic differences in the Soviet and American drafts of the NPT, the document emphasizes that one key area of common ground between the Soviets and Americans is the importance that an agreement be reached sooner rather than later before more countries acquire nuclear capabilities.
September 1945	Atomic Bomb (Report of the Group of [Soviet] Embassy Staff Members Who Visited Hiroshima) A group of staff members from the Soviet Embassy in Tokyo interviewed Japanese witnesses of the atomic bomb explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They found that the two bombs wreaked havoc on the bodies of those within a small radius of the explosion; most survivors exhibited severe burns, a decreased white blood cell count, and injuries from broken glass. Witnesses from outside this radius faced less severe injuries, and the Embassy staff note that the Japanese press has been exaggerating the effects of the atomic bomb in order to justify the nation’s unconditional surrender.
October 7, 1968	Directive Sent to Cde. I.D. Morokhov, Soviet Representative, Vienna Instructions and language from the Politburo to the Soviet representative about the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
August 18, 1968	Text of letter from Chairman of the USSR Council of Minister A.N. Kosygin to the President of the USA, L. Johnson Letter to Lyndon Johnson about setting a date for negotiations called the Soviet-American Negotiations on the Question of Curbing the Strategic Armaments Race.
June 20, 1968	Directives for the Soviet Delegation at Soviet-American Technical Negotiations on the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosions Directives from the Politburo to the Soviet Delegation at the Soviet-American technical negotiations. Directive includes proposals and agreements to negotiation points.
June 20, 1968	Text of the Answer to the U.S.A. on Soviet-American Technical Negotiations on the Issue of Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosions Approvals and questions sent from the Politburo to the United States about the Soviet-American technical negotiations on the issue of peaceful uses of nuclear explosions.
June 20, 1968	Extract from Protocol No. 86, Meeting of the Politburo of the CC of the CPSU on 20 June 1968, 'XII. On Soviet-American Technical Negotiations on the Issue of Peaceful Use of Nuclear Explosions' Points of discussion for Soviet-American technical negotiations on the issue of peaceful use of nuclear explosions.
April 15, 1968	Directive Sent to the Soviet Ambassador, Washington Statement sent to the Soviet ambassador in Washington chastising the United States for the B-52 crash in Greenland.