In Memoriam: Dr. William Burr, 1949-2025
Nat’l Sec. Archive, Dec. 15, 2025
The National Security Archive mourns the passing of our beloved colleague William Burr, the documentary leader of the nuclear history field, on December 11, 2025.
Tributes to Bill have poured in over the weekend from all over the world, emphasizing his brilliance as a scholar, his generosity as an archivist, his modesty and integrity as a person, his centrality to the whole field of nuclear studies, and the enormous legacies he leaves to the rest of us.
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