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National Security Action Memorandum 370: Nuclear Weapons Deployment Authorization for FY 1969 and FY 1970
National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 370 addressed Department of Defense nuclear weapons dispersal authorization requests for FY 1969 and FY 19709. NSAM 370 was originally a Top Secret directive and most of the text has been blacked out in this unclassified version. In general, it originally provided quotas for dispersal amounts within the U.S., outside the U.S., and in support to NATO forces.
United States. White House Office
1968-06-11
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National Security Action Memorandum 368: Intelligence Information Handling System
National Security Action Memorandum 368 tasked the Director of Central Intelligence to prepare a proposal for the "phased implementation of a community-wide information handling system to insure the secure and efficient dissemination, processing, storage and retrieval of intelligence information." The Director was charged with consulting with the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board in the preparation of the report, which was to be submitted by mid-1968. The directive is signed by W. W. Rostow (Walt Whitman Rostow), economic historian who during his career was involved in foreign policy and political affairs, and became one of the leading advisers to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara during the Vietnam War.
United States. White House Office
1968-02-09
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National Security Action Memorandum 364: Nuclear Weapons Dispersal Authorization for FY 1967- FY 1968
National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 364 addressed nuclear weapons dispersal authorization requests for FY 1967 and 1968 from the Department of Defense.
Note: NSAM 364 was originally a Top Secret directive and a fair amount of the text has been blacked out in this unclassified version. In general, it originally provided quotas for dispersal amounts within the U.S., outside the U.S., and in support to NATO forces. NSAM 364 also noted a procedure for handling future dispersal authorizations (blacked out in this edition).
United States. White House Office
1967-08-14
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National Security Action Memorandum 334: Request for Nuclear Weapons Dispersal Authorization
Much as National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 305 did for FY 1994, NSAM 334 takes various actions relating to nuclear weapons dispersal applicable to the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense for FY 1965. It authorized the Atomic Energy Commission to transfer to DoD a certain number of separable nuclear components and complete atomic weapons, and replace damaged or lost nuclear components/warheads in DoD custody. The Department of Defense, in turn, was authorized to obtain custody of a number of nuclear components and weapons (specific number blacked out), disperse atomic weapons in the US, disperse nuclear weapons outside of the US and provide nuclear weapons and support to non-U.S force.
United States. White House Office
1965-01-01
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National Security Action Memorandum 322: Guidelines for Discussions on the Nuclear Defense of the Atlantic Alliance
National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 322 established views and positions the President desired his negotiators to take while in discussions relating to the "nuclear defense of the Atlantic Alliance," i.e. NATO. In addition, the Directive is also interesting in that it hints at nuclear disagreements between the U.S. and France, lays out the U.S.'s position that Europe must have the United States' consent before firing nuclear weapons, and the President's views on what the advantages of an agreement with Europe. Namely, such an agreement would reduce or remove some countries from the area of nuclear strategic deterrence, while at the same time fostering the idea of collective versus independent nuclear strategic defense.
United States. White House Office
1964-12-17
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National Security Action Memorandum 320: Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation
With National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 307 President Johnson appointed a special Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation, (President's Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation) under the chairmanship of, then, Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, and composed of various other policy advisers. The Task Force was tasked with examining the problem of proliferation in its "broadest ramifications" and to provide the President with a report by the end of January 1965.
United States. White House Office
1964-11-25
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National Security Action Memorandum 318: Future of Nuclear Defense of Atlantic Alliance
National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 318 required that government representatives travelling abroad for discussions on the nuclear defense of the Atlantic Alliance (i.e., NATO) have their instructions cleared by the White House and the State and Defense Departments first. Additionally, the Secretaries of Defense and State were charged with designating which of their officers were to be allowed to discuss such issues with the press and which were to be instructed not to discuss them at all. From the Document: "It is critically important that this Government should speak with one voice on this subject in the future."
United States. White House Office
1964-11-14
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National Security Action Memorandum 311: Review of the Problem of Assurance Against Any Missile Crisis in Cuba
National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 311 requested the undertaking of a study into "all the aspects of the problem of maintaining adequate assurance against an attempted reintroduction of offensive missiles into Cuba," laying out various courses of action available to the United States. The study was to be undertaken by "representatives" of the secretaries of State and Defense as well as the Director of the CIA.
United States. White House Office
1964-07-10
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National Security Action Memorandum 307: Review of Underground Nuclear Tests
With National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) 307, President Johnson "reconstituted" the Review Committee on Underground Nuclear Tests and enumerated its members. The directive mandated the Committee to review requests for authorization of specific scheduled tests and consider their "policy and technical justifications" to determine if said tests were "consistent with the requirement of national security and foreign policy." The directive also called on the Committee to transmit its recommendations to the President for his full consideration, and to continue performing additional functions as directed by National Security Action Memorandum 269, "Procedure for Approval of Certain Nuclear Tests," instituted during the Kennedy administration.
United States. White House Office
1964-06-19
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National Security Action Memorandum 305: Nuclear Weapons Dispersal Authorization for FY 1964
In this National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM), President Johnson takes various actions relating to nuclear weapons dispersal applicable to the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense. Among other things, NSAM 305 authorized the Atomic Energy Commission to transfer to DoD a certain number of completed and parts for nuclear weapons, and replace damaged or lost nuclear components/warheads in DoD custody. The Department of Defense, in turn, was authorized to obtain custody of a number of nuclear components and weapons (specific number blacked out), disperse atomic weapons in the US without limit within the range of weapons allowed to them, disperse nuclear weapons outside of the US and provide nuclear weapons and support to non-U.S force as permitted by previous memoranda, and, provide the president with a dispersal pan for the following fiscal year.
United States. White House Office
1964-06-16
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National Security Action Memorandum 302: Dispersal Plan for NORAD Air Defense Service
In this National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM), President Johnson directs that "this [directive] will approve discussion of a plan for dispersal of US air defense aircraft and associated nuclear weapons to Canadian bases as an agenda item in the US-Canada Ministerial Joint Committee on Defense on June 25. It is understood that the Government of Canada has no objection to consideration of this item at this time."
United States. White House Office
1964-05-22
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National Security Action Memorandum 300: Review of Alternative Communications, Navigation, Missile and Space Tracking and Data Acquisition Facilities
This National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) states that, "The Secretary of State in cooperation with the heads of other responsible departments and agencies of the Government is requested to review the continuing need for U.S. overseas land-based facilities that are now located in politically unstable or unreliable areas and which are utilized for communications, navigation, missile and space tracking, and data acquisition. Each responsible operating agency will analyze the continuing need for its facilities now located in politically unstable or unreliable areas as identified by the Secretary of State and develop plans to meet the contingency that such facilities may become unavailable for further U.S. use."
United States. White House Office
1964-05-19
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National Security Action Memorandum 294: U.S. Nuclear and Strategic Delivery System Assistance to France
In NSAM 294 it was determined that "It is the policy of this government to oppose the development of nuclear forces by additional states, other than those whose forces would be assigned as part of a NATO nuclear force, targeted in accordance with NATO plans and, except when supreme national interests were at stake, used only for the defense purposes of the alliance."
United States. White House Office
1964-04-20
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