The Sandia Pulsed Reactor Facility (SPRF)

The Sandia Pulsed Reactor Facility (SPRF)
Author: P. D. O'Brien
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 1962
Genre: Nuclear physics
ISBN:

The Sandia Pulsed Reactor Facility (SPRF) is a laboratory facility specifically designed for radiation effects experiments which require an intense pulse of fast neutrons and gamma rays.

The Last Warrior

The Last Warrior
Author: Andrew F Krepinevich
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2015-01-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465080715

Andrew Marshall is a Pentagon legend. For more than four decades he has served as Director of the Office of Net Assessment, the Pentagon's internal think tank, under twelve defense secretaries and eight administrations. Yet Marshall has been on the cutting edge of strategic thinking even longer than that. At the RAND Corporation during its golden age in the 1950s and early 1960s, Marshall helped formulate bedrock concepts of US nuclear strategy that endure to this day; later, at the Pentagon, he pioneered the development of "net assessment" -- a new analytic framework for understanding the long-term military competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. Following the Cold War, Marshall successfully used net assessment to anticipate emerging disruptive shifts in military affairs, including the revolution in precision warfare and the rise of China as a major strategic rival of the United States. In The Last Warrior, Andrew Krepinevich and Barry Watts -- both former members of Marshall's staff -- trace Marshall's intellectual development from his upbringing in Detroit during the Great Depression to his decades in Washington as an influential behind-the-scenes advisor on American defense strategy. The result is a unique insider's perspective on the changes in US strategy from the dawn of the Cold War to the present day. Covering some of the most pivotal episodes of the last half-century and peopled with some of the era's most influential figures, The Last Warrior tells Marshall's story for the first time, in the process providing an unparalleled history of the evolution of the American defense establishment.

Inside The Black Vault

Inside The Black Vault
Author: John Greenewald, Jr.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2019-04-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1538118386

The evidence in this book may not ultimately give you the “smoking gun” you are looking for on your journey, but I guarantee it will give you a box of bullets when you find it. In 1996, John Greenewald, Jr. began researching the secret inner workings of the U.S. Government at the age of fifteen. He targeted such agencies as the CIA, FBI, Pentagon, Air Force, Army, Navy, NSA, DIA, and countless others. Greenewald utilized the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to gain access to more than two million pages of documents. This archive includes information relating to UFOs, the JFK Assassination, chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, and top secret aircraft. He took the millions of pages, and over the course of more than two decades, has built an archive known around the world, as The Black Vault. Inside The Black Vault: The Government’s UFO Secrets Revealed takes you on a journey within the secret world of unidentified aerial phenomenon that has plagued the military since at least the 1940s. Declassified records prove that the UFO topic is one of the most highly classified and most elusive subjects the U.S. Government has ever dealt with. Each chapter explores various agencies and their documents, and Greenewald breaks down the meaning of why some of the most important documents are relevant to proving a massive cover-up. Along with declassified documents, Greenewald outlines the struggle it took him to get them. No other topic has proven so difficult, in more than 8,000 FOIA requests that he has filed. He explores why that might be and meets skeptics and debunkers head on, outlining why some of their more prominent rebuttals for it all cannot be true.

Atoms for Peace and War, 1953-1961

Atoms for Peace and War, 1953-1961
Author: Richard G. Hewlett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 742
Release: 2023-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520329368

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

The Defense of Western Europe

The Defense of Western Europe
Author: Lewis H. Gann
Publisher: Auburn House
Total Pages: 317
Release: 1987-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780865691599

After World War II, Western Europe became closely linked to the United States--economically through a variety of associations within the Atlantic Community, and militarily through NATO. This volume stresses the strategic importance of Western Europe for the United States. It provides detailed surveys of the background and preparedness of the NATO defense forces and the forces of Austria, Switzerland, and other countries of strategic importance. Each chapter provides a general outline of military developments since 1945, including such topics as: the relationship between armed forces and society; recruitment practices; armaments; organization; relations with NATO; and future projections. The authoritative series of descriptive, historical, and analytical essays in this volume makes it an essential resource for defense specialists, policymakers, and scholars of Western Europe.

Problems in the History of Modern Africa

Problems in the History of Modern Africa
Author: Robert O. Collins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN:

A presentation of important issues in the study of modern Africa. It addresses: decolonization and the end of Empire; democracy and the nation state; epidemics in Africa - the human and financial costs; development - failure or success; the African environment - origins of a crisis; and more.

Learning from Iraq

Learning from Iraq
Author: Stuart W. Bowen, Jr.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2013-04-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781457844850

This report culminates the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction’s (SIGIR's) nine-year mission overseeing Iraq's reconstruction. It recapitulates what the reconstruction program accomplished and what SIGIR found in the interstices, and also captures the effects of the rebuilding program as derived from 44 interviews with the recipients (the Iraqi leadership), the executors (U.S. senior leaders), and the providers (congressional members). These interviews provide a picture of the largest stabilization and reconstruction operation ever undertaken by the U.S. (until recently overtaken by Afghanistan). The report reveals countless details about the use of more than $60 billion in taxpayer dollars to support programs and projects in Iraq. It articulates numerous lessons derived from SIGIR's 220 audits and 170 inspections and lists the varying consequences meted out from the 82 convictions achieved through SIGIR’s investigations. The report concludes that not enough was accomplished in Iraq for the amount of funds spent. Figures and tables.

State Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Action Plans (Us Federal Railroad Administration Regulation) (Fra) (2018 Edition)

State Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Action Plans (Us Federal Railroad Administration Regulation) (Fra) (2018 Edition)
Author: The Law The Law Library
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2018-09-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781727572865

State Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Action Plans (US Federal Railroad Administration Regulation) (FRA) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the State Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Action Plans (US Federal Railroad Administration Regulation) (FRA) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 This final rule complies with a statutory mandate that the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) issue a rule to require the ten States with the most highway-rail grade crossing collisions, on average, over the past three years, to develop State highway-rail grade crossing action plans. The final rule addresses the development, review, and approval of these highway-rail grade crossing action plans. This final rule also removes the preemption provision of this regulation. This book contains: - The complete text of the State Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Action Plans (US Federal Railroad Administration Regulation) (FRA) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section