Military / Defense

Proposal Nuclear Radiation Effects on Materials at Cryogenic Temperatures, July 1959

Background The background to how this Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request played out is the most interesting part of…

June 22, 2017

Report on Test of Bombs, Chemical, 100-LB, T6E1, Lots E-3685-127 and E-3685-128, December 15, 1939

Background This document (without a title when I learned of it) appears in the DTIC Classified Document list. It was…

June 21, 2017

Explosion of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Building 236, July 18, 2015

Background On July 23, 2015, CBS News published the following: An explosion inside a federal laboratory in Maryland appears to…

June 13, 2017

FBI Atlanta Intelligence Note from Domain Management: Terrorism and Counterintelligence Threat, September 8, 2009

Background I found reference to the following document, having been released due to an ACLU FOIA lawsuit in 2011. Since…

June 11, 2017

CONTINUOUSLY CIRCULATING FISSIOCHEMICAL PROCESS DEVELOPMENT APPLICABLE TO HYDRAZINE SYNTHESIS. VOLUME 1: PROGRAM SURVEY, PROCESSING, AND MATERIALS

Background The primary goal of this program was to design, develop, construct and operate a continuous in-reactor hydrazine production loop…

June 7, 2017

Annual Progress Report, 1 July 1960 – 30 June 1961, Aerospace Corporation

Background This is the first annual report of Aerospace Corporation covering its technical programs performed under contract AF 04(647)-594 for…

May 12, 2017

The U-2 Program

Background The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is a single-engine, high-altitude aircraft flown by the United States Air Force and…

May 9, 2017

A Report Card on the Department of Energy’s Nonproliferation Programs with Russia, dated January 10, 2001 – by Howard Baker, Lloyd Cutler

Background Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, we have witnessed the dissolution of an empire having over 40,000 nuclear…

May 5, 2017

A Chronology of Terrorist Attacks and Other Criminal Actions Against Maritime Targets, September 1983 RAND Study

Background As part of its continuing research on subnational conflict, The Rand Corporation has compiled a number of chronologies of…

March 31, 2017

Nuclear Weapon Characteristics Handbook, September 1990

Background The Nuclear Weapon Characteristics Handbook, dated September 1990, was first requested in June of 2009, and it was not…

March 23, 2017