[RIAN] The U.S. National Security Archive has fully declassified the most controversial nuclear policy document of the Cold War – the Presidential Directive 59 (PD-59), which focused on a possible nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Highly classified for decades, PD-59 was signed in July 1980 by President Jimmy Carter “during a period of heightened Cold War tensions due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, greater instability in the Middle East, and earlier strains over China policy, human rights, the Horn of Africa, and Euromissiles.”
The full text of the document is now available on the U.S. National Security Archive’s page at George Washington University’s website.
“The document provides insights about the thinking of key U.S. officials about the state of nuclear planning and the possible progression of events should war break out,” the archive said in an annotation to the document.
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Jimmy Carter's Controversial Nuclear Targeting Directive PD-59 Declassified
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National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 390
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Presidential Directives (PD)
[Carter Administration, 1977-81]
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