Abstract
As authors Robert S. Norris, William M. Arkin, and William Burr explain in “Where They Were,” beginning on page 26, Appendix B is a remarkable document. It comes at the end of the History of the Custody and Deployment of Nuclear Weapons: July 1945 through September 1977, a study undertaken a generation ago by the Defense Department and released earlier this year as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
Appendix B provides more detail regarding the extent of America's far-flung nuclear enterprise than has ever before been available, although it is not error free, as the authors point out. The appendix did not come to the NRDC uncensored; 18 of the destination names were blacked out. But because the names were in alphabetical order, and because the authors had a wealth of corroborating data, they were able to add–in brackets all but one of the missing names. The mystery destination falls between Canada and Cuba.
