Military / Defense

Three Volume, 1979 FEMA Study, about the Economic Recovery following a Nuclear Attack

Background This report contains an assessment of the state-of-the-art of modeling and analysis for civil preparedness and management of the…

December 28, 2016

Records on Nuclear Weapons & Attacks

Background A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a…

December 27, 2016

Y2K

Background The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or simply Y2K)…

December 23, 2016

Project Orion – Nuclear Propulsion Concept

Background Project Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of…

December 22, 2016

Civil Defense

Background Civil defense or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state (generally non-combatants) from military…

December 21, 2016

National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Development and Production Manual (D & P)

Background NNSA receives its authority for the responsibility for all weapon and weapon-related functions from 50 USC 2402, Chapter 41.…

December 18, 2016

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Background An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is an unpiloted aircraft. UAVs come in two varieties: some are controlled from a…

December 15, 2016

Summaries of Nuclear Weapon and Material Accidents – Department of Energy – National Nuclear Security Administration

Background While sifting through thousands of different pages of documents, I found references to some previously, never-before-released (that I saw)…

December 1, 2016

Possible Determination of an Extraordinary Nuclear Occurrence at Three Mile Island Unit 2, April 2, 1979

Background The following documents is a COMMISSIONER ACTION memo, labeled SECY-79-235 from Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation,…

November 22, 2016

Operation STEADFAST: U.S. Army Reorganization, 1972-1973

Background The vast expansion of the nation's armed forces just prior to and during World War II led to the…

November 21, 2016