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This subseries contains correspondence with Thomas Blakemore, Kurt Steiner, Justin Williams, and other people Oppler worked with while in Japan. Other letters concern various interviews with scholars and journalists and various political causes that Oppler supported. Of note is a letter from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lyman L. Leminitzer (September 22, 1960). Oppler segregated almost all correspondence generated while working with the SCAP and the FEC and while writing Legal Reform in Occupied Japan and entries for The Encyclopedia of Japan and kept it with other papers pertaining to these activities. This arrangement has been preserved.

The record on appeal for LaValle v. State of New York, volumes 1-33. This series also contains supplmental case material.

This sub-series contains legislative materials such as bills, concurrent resolutions, and joint resolutions.

The Administration files are arranged alphabetically by subject. They contain minutes, agenda, annual reports, bylaws, financial statements, grant applications, subscription lists, circulation reports, and promotional materials. The files document the day-to-day activities of the BAS and detail the organizational structure which supported the journal. Included in these files are minutes and papers dating from 1945 to 1949 of the Atomic Scientists of Chicago. This was the organization which initially sponsored publication of the Bulletin.

The regional groups were the geographic subdivisions of the Atlantic Chapter which handled issues of primarily local interest, for example, contaminated waste sites in particular communities. Items typically found in the regional group records include by-laws, membership information, correspondence, minutes of meetings, financial data, and newsletters. All of the eleven regional groups listed in the 1993 Chapter Directory (Finger Lakes, Hudson-Mohawk, Iroquois, Long Island, Lower Hudson (Westchester/Putnam), Mid-Hudson, New York City, Niagara, Ramapo-Catskill, Rochester, and Susquehanna) are documented here.