Background According to the document: The “Electro-ring” concept of using electron rings in space for energy storage originated with the author during Rand studies of radiation (laser, particle beam) weapon systems in space. The ...
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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 this. It started with seeing reference to the document in a bibliography about Air Force Plant 67, or the Georgia ...
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 dated 1939, and did not think it would be this hard to get it declassified. I was forced to appeal the decision to entirely ...
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 be connected to a security officer’s small-scale efforts to manufacture methamphetamine, according to a ...
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 a large amount of time had passed since it was originally released (and it was heavily redacted), I requested the document ...
