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July 5, 1982	Memorandum from S.N. Mukha to Comrade V.V. Shcherbitsky The KGB of Ukraine provides a report to Shcherbitsky about the success of the agent "Michael," a US citizen, who has been providing the with information on US technology for thermal protection in missiles which the USSR intends to use in the development of its own missiles.
July 1, 1993	V. Tolubko, 'Nuclear Weapons, Space Fleet: Decisions Cannot be Delayed' In a report to the Verkhovna Rada, Tolubko discusses three national security issues. He argues that Ukraine should either develop its own nuclear weapons industry or operate Ukrainian nuclear weapons jointly with Russia. He suggests that Ukraine should try to preserve its status as a space nation and should lease the naval base in Crimea to Russia.
January 26, 1993	Speech by the Head of Delegation of Ukraine Y. I. Kostenko at the Opening of Negotiations with the Russian Federation on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons At the opening of negotiations with Russia on the elimination of nuclear weapons from Ukraine, Kostenko discusses Ukraine's main concerns: ensuring reliable operation and storage of nuclear warheads in Ukraine until their liquidation, maintaining the Armed Forces of the CIS' control over the operation of Ukraine's nuclear arms, and the recognition that all weapons on Ukrainian territory or removed to Russia after independence belong to Ukraine which will determine how and where to safely dismantle them.
1991	Organizing Group for the Establishment of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in 1991 List of officers who assisted with the organization of independent Ukraine's new ministry of defense.
October 31, 1945	Telegram, L. Beria and G. Malenkov to Cde. Stalin Request for Stalin's opinion about the nomination of several candidates for the People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
May 1986	Background Radiation in the Institute of Atomic Research of the Ukr. SSR Academy of Sciences The paper shows a graph of background radiation levels from April 30th-May 2nd, 1986 within the IAR in Kyiv.
April 1986	Recommendations and Some Information on the Conditions in the Zone of Increased Radiation in the City of Kiev This document lists the composition of the emissions in the air in Kiev, as well as sanitary and dietary recommendations believed to ease the impacts of radiation.
May 1986	Radiation Conditions in Kyiv, Borodianka, Polesskoe, and Ivankov This undated report shows levels of radioactivity of air and water in Kyiv, Borodyanka, Polyesskoe, and Ivankov
January 22, 1991	Commission on Questions of the Chernobyl Catastrophe, Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR, 'On Some Problems in the Elimination of the Consequences of the Accident at the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station' This report explains ecological and security problems which arose several years later as a result of the Chernobyl accident, as well as areas for improvement in control of the reactor site and medical testing of the local population. Importantly, it also acknowledges that the potential impact zone includes approximately 4.5 million residents of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, which was, at that time, not widely known.
February 3, 1987	Intelligence Message on the Chernobyl Accident This translation of a French brochure about the nuclear accident at Chernobyl was provided by an undercover KGB agent. The brochure discusses the reasons for the accident and compares Chernobyl and Soviet style plants to those in the West, concluding that the French and American reactors possess superior safety standards.