Background This report contains an assessment of the state-of-the-art of modeling and analysis for civil preparedness and management of the…
Background A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a…
Background The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or simply Y2K)…
Background Project Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of…
Background Civil defense or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state (generally non-combatants) from military…
Background NNSA receives its authority for the responsibility for all weapon and weapon-related functions from 50 USC 2402, Chapter 41.…
Background An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is an unpiloted aircraft. UAVs come in two varieties: some are controlled from a…
Background While sifting through thousands of different pages of documents, I found references to some previously, never-before-released (that I saw)…
Background The following documents is a COMMISSIONER ACTION memo, labeled SECY-79-235 from Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation,…
Background The vast expansion of the nation's armed forces just prior to and during World War II led to the…