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South Atlantic Nuclear Event (memorandum with untitled discussion paper)
Christine (Staff Secretary, National Security Council) Dodson, 1979. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 190, Document 1.
NSC memorandum of 22 October 1979 to the Secretary of State and others with a discussion paper stating the Intelligence Community's "high confidence" that a low-yield atmospheric nuclear explosion occurred on 22 September 1979.
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The government's initial technical judgement.
The document 12 pages
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Dodson, C. (. S. N. S. C. (1979). South Atlantic Nuclear Event (memorandum with untitled discussion paper). National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 190, Document 1. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB190/01.pdf
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Dodson, Christine (Staff Secretary, National Security Council). “South Atlantic Nuclear Event (memorandum with untitled discussion paper).” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 190, Document 1 (1979).