Date

Feb 12, 1982

Description

By the time of this memo, former Deputy Secretary of State William P. Clark had recently become national security adviser (in the wake of Richard V. Allen's resignation), and National Security Council staff secretary Col. Michael Wheeler sought arrangements to bring Clark up to speed on nuclear weapons policy issues. Wheeler asked JCS Chairman Jones for a wide-ranging set of briefings that covered U.S. strategic forces (offensive and defensive), nuclear war plans and their evolution, and a "briefing on how NCA options are presented under crisis conditions."

Source

RG 218, Records of JCS Chairman David Jones, box 16, NSC 2 Feb 82-31 March 82

Document published in following posting(s):

Reagan's Nuclear War Briefing Declassified

Dec 22, 2016

Memorandum from Colonel Michael Wheeler, Staff Secretary, National Security Council, to Major General Carl R. Smith, Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, "Request for Briefings," 12 February 1982, with cover memo from Captain Eric McVadon to JCS Chairman Jones, 16 February 1982, Secret