End Launch on Warning Policy
- updated: Replace Launch on Warning (pdf format, revised August 2009)
- Interview with Dr. Alan Phillips: An Introduction to No Launch on Warning
- No Launch on Warning by Alan F. Phillips, M.D. [full paper]
- Questions and Answers About No LoW
- Note on Terminology
- “…the United States should remove as many weapons as possible from high-alert, hair-trigger status–another unnecessary vestige of Cold War confrontation. . . today, for two nations at peace, keeping so many weapons on high alert may create unacceptable risks of accidental or unauthorized launch. So, as President, I will ask for an assessment of what we can safely do to lower the alert status of our forces.”
- (George W. Bush, Washington, May 23, 2000. Excerpt from presidential candidate George W. Bush’s remarks on national security and arms control policy, as reported in The New York Times, 24 May 2000)
- Launch on Warning: The Development of U.S. Capabilities, 1959-1979
- U.S. President Bill Clinton Policy on Nuclear Weapons and Launch on Warning
- No Launch On Warning, Ploughshares Working Paper 01-1
- ? 20 Mishaps That Might Have Started Accidental Nuclear War, by Alan Phillips
- How Close did We Come?PBS Frontline episode