Below, you will find various reports regarding foreign intelligence on Russia. This will primarily consist of records after the Cold War. If you are interested in that era, make sure you visit the Cold War Era archive as well. Declassified Documents Impact of the RMA on Russian Military Affairs. Volume 1, January 1997 [ 113 Pages, 11.91MB ] – In the early 1980s, the Soviet military was perhaps the first to argue that a new “revolution” was occurring in military affairs. Today the Russian military argues that precision-guided, non-nuclear, deep-strike weapons and the systems used to integrate them are revolutionizing all aspects of military art and…
Author: John Greenewald
As the world population grows, many problems and questions arise. This section archives documents dealing with these world issues. How Americans View World Population Issues [142 Pages, 4.9MB] – This report presents the results of a survey of Americans’ views about global demographic trends and issues in the context of U.S. international economic assistance. The survey was conducted in August- September 1998 by Belden Russonello & Stewart, a public-opinion research firm in Washington, D.C., in conjunction with Ronald Hinckley of Research/Strategy/Management, and coordinated by Sally Patterson of Wagner Associates Public Affalrs Consulting, Inc., a public-affairs consulting firm based in Washington,…
Background According to Professor Philip A. Pecorino, published in 2002: Mentally retarded children housed at the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York, were intentionally given hepatitis in an attempt to track the development of the viral infection. The study began in 1956 and lasted for 14 years. The researcher also wanted to determine the effectiveness of gamma globulin injections as protection against hepatitis. They justified their deliberate infections and exposures by claiming that given that there was a high rate of infection in the institution it was practically inevitable that the children would become infected. (Source) Below, you…
Introduction The following are documents relating to oil spills, cleanups, and different R&D efforts by the military, government and private organizations. The hope is that scientists, researchers, investigators, clean-up crews, BP, or whomever else can use this as a research resource. Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed unabated for three months in 2010, and may be continuing to leak. Named the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry, its source was a sea-floor oil gusher resulting from the 20 April…
Backgroud Excerpt from the August, 1974, CIA report, entitled: Potential Implications of Trends in World Population, Food Production, and Climate. Full document is available below. “The widespread crop shortfalls in 1972 and the energy and fertilizer crunches in ’73 and ’74 have raised anew the basic question of whether the production of food can keep pace with demand over the next few decades. Concern about the capability of many of the poorer countries to provide for their growing population is widespread and rising. Major international conferences planned for the second half of this year–i.e., the World Population Conference in August and the World Food Conference in November– will focus…