‎Administration‎

‎National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.‎

‎State Alcohol Related Fatality Rates: NHTSA Technical Report DOT HS 809 830‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 1492391727.G ISBN : 1492391727 9781492391722

‎National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, US. Department of Transportation U. S.‎

‎Statistical Analysis of the Effectiveness of Electronic Stability Control ESC Systems- Final Report: NHTSA Technical Report DOT HS 810 794‎

‎CREATESPACE 2013-09-14. paperback. New. 8.50x0.15x11.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. CREATESPACE paperback‎

Bookseller reference : DADAX1492399841 ISBN : 1492399841 9781492399841

‎National Highway Traffic Safety administration‎

‎The Car Book: A Consumer's Guide to Car Buying‎

‎Washington DC: U. S. Department of Transportation 1981. 68 pp. Wraps have slight wear. Pages clean with no markings. . Soft Cover - Staple Bound. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. U. S. Department of Transportation Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 048929A

‎National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.‎

‎The Effectiveness of Daytime Running Lights for Passenger Vehicles NHTSA Technical Report DOT HS 811 029‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 1492772534.G ISBN : 1492772534 9781492772538

‎National Highway Traffic Safety Administration/ US. Department of Transportation/ Lococo, Kathy H./ Staplin, Loren/ Schultz, Mat‎

‎The Effects of Medical Conditions on Driving Performance: A Literature Review and Synthesis‎

‎Independently published 2019. Paperback. New. 82 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.21 inches. Independently published paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 2-168709134X ISBN : 168709134X 9781687091345

‎National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.‎

‎The Long-Term Effect of ABS in Passenger Cars and LTVs NHTSA Technical Report DOT HS 811 182‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 1492775657.G ISBN : 1492775657 9781492775652

‎National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.‎

‎Traffic Records Program Assessment Advisory‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 1493536729.G ISBN : 1493536729 9781493536726

‎National Highway Traffic Safety Administration U.‎

‎Traffic Safety Facts 2011: A Compilation of Motor Vehicle Crash Data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the General Estimates System‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 1493505378.G ISBN : 1493505378 9781493505371

‎National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.‎

‎Traffic Safety Facts 1994: A Compilation of Motor Vehicle Crash Data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the General Estimates System‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 1493750267.G ISBN : 1493750267 9781493750269

‎National Highway Traffic Safety Administration U.‎

‎Traffic Safety Facts 1997: A Compilation of Motor Vehicle Crash Data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the General Estimates System‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 1493693573.G ISBN : 1493693573 9781493693573

‎National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.‎

‎Trends in Non-Fatal Traffic Injuries: 1996 - 2005: NHTSA Technical Report DOT HS 810 944‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 1492765740.G ISBN : 1492765740 9781492765745

‎National Institutes of Health, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration‎

‎NIH/ADAMHA Technology Transfer: The Federal Technology Transfer Act and Collaboration with Industry‎

‎Bethesda MD: NIH 1989. good. three-ring binder approximately 1 inch of material including tabbed dividers acronyms glossaryThis contains an overview of Technology Transfer at NIH/ADAMHA. NIH unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 54456

‎National Nuclear Security Administration‎

‎ADAPT Campaign; 90-Day Study Report‎

‎Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration 2002. Contemporary Xerox-style copy. Staplebound. Good. 4 18 18 pages of Risk & Opportunity Assessment 19-21 pages Fold-outs. This 90=day study was commissioned at the request of NA-12 senior management with the express purpose of finding weaknesses in the current ADAPT Campaign-level management and administrative processes and developing fixes alternatives and/or instituting new processes. The study was facilitated by experts from Westinghouse Savannah River Corp. and used their approach to systems engineering. The core members of the analysis team consisted of the seven ADAPT site manages and three MTE Major Technical Effort managers. The team was lead by the NA-12 Campaign Manager in collaboration with the NA-11 and NA-12 HQ ADAPT leads. The team developed a new vision for ADAPT with the future of the Nuclear Weapons Complex NWC in mind. Supporting the vision was a set of eleven goals that were intended to support a balance between short-term vs. long-term development needs efficient processes and procedures vs. effective stewardship and optimization of limited funds site-unique capability improvement vs. increased multi-site cooperation and collaboration; and improved communication of priorities problems expectations and requirements both from and to designers weapons program managers other campaigns and senior management. One of NNSA's core missions is to ensure the United States maintains a safe secure and reliable nuclear stockpile through the application of unparalleled science technology engineering and manufacturing. The Office of Defense Programs carries out NNSA's mission to maintain and modernize the nuclear stockpile through the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program. The Stockpile Stewardship Program enables NNSA to extend the lifespan and ensure the continued safety reliability and effectiveness of weapons that have reached the end of their original design life through life extension programs. These life extensions address aging and performance issues enhance safety features and improve security.<br/><br/>As with any complex mechanical system components in nuclear weapons degrade over time even when kept in storage. A life extension program comprehensively analyzes all of a weapon's components and determines whether to reuse refurbish or replace them to extend the service life of the weapon. When planning life extension programs NNSA must develop specific solutions to extend the lifetime of each weapon type because each is unique. Life extension programs also require NNSA to certify the weapon's protected period its new lifetime for 20 to 30 years. By extending the time that a weapon can safely and reliably remain in the stockpile NNSA is able to maintain a credible nuclear deterrent without producing new weapons or conducting underground nuclear explosive tests.<br/><br/>NNSA also conducts alterations of weapons at the system sub-system or component level to make sure the weapons is safe secure and effective. An alteration is a limited scope change that affects assembly tests maintenance and/or storage of weapons. An alteration may address identified defects and component obsolescence however it does not change a weapon's operational capabilities. National Nuclear Security Administration unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 80753

‎National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office, Office of Public Affairs‎

‎Apollo Astronauts Train at the Nevada Test Site; Nevada Test Site History DOE/NV - -772 - Rev 1‎

‎Las Vegas NV: National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office Office of Public Affairs 2004. Presumed First printing for Rev 1. Single sheet printed on both sides. Very good. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Illustrations and text on both sides. The Nevada Test Site was the primary testing location of American nuclear devices from 1951 to 1992; 928 announced nuclear tests occurred there. Of those 828 were underground. Sixty-two of the underground tests included multiple simultaneous nuclear detonations adding 93 detonations and bringing the total number of NTS nuclear detonations to 1021 of which 921 were underground. The site is covered with subsidence craters from the testing. The NTS was the United States' primary location for tests smaller than 1 Mt 4.2 PJ. 126 tests were conducted elsewhere including most larger tests. Many of these occurred at the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands. The last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site was "Little Feller I" of Operation Sunbeam on July 17 1962. Before Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon on July 20 1969 Armstrong and astronauts Dick Gordon Buzz Aldrin Dave Scott and Russell "Rusty" Schweikart left their footprints on the Nevada Test Site now known as the Nevada National Security Site NNSS as part of their lunar training. Their three-day visit began on February 16 1965. It was the first training mission by a group of astronauts from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA. Their mission was to carry out geological and geophysical studies at<br /> Sedan crater and Buckboard Mesa which later aided the astronauts in observing and collecting material from the moon's surface and helping expand knowledge and understanding about our solar system. During their visit to the Nevada Test Site astronauts were briefed by geologists from the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Operations Office Special Projects Branch and the United States Geological Survey Astrogeology Branch. The first group of astronauts visited Sedan crater on the first day where they practiced making geophysical observations around the lip of the crater. On the second day they flew by helicopter over the rough Nevada terrain near the western edge of the site. While there they stopped and studied the geology of the ancient volcanic formations made by the Timber Mountain caldera the largest caldera known in the United States whose features are similar to those on the surface of the moon. National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office, Office of Public Affairs unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 81039

‎National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office, Office of Public Affairs‎

‎Atmospheric Tests at the Nevada Test Site; Nevada Test Site History DOE/NV - -716 - Rev 1‎

‎Las Vegas NV: National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office Office of Public Affairs 2005. Presumed First printing for Rev 1. Single sheet printed on both sides. Very good. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Illustrations and text on both sides. The Nevada Test Site was the primary testing location of American nuclear devices from 1951 to 1992; 928 announced nuclear tests occurred there. Of those 828 were underground. Sixty-two of the underground tests included multiple simultaneous nuclear detonations adding 93 detonations and bringing the total number of NTS nuclear detonations to 1021 of which 921 were underground. The site is covered with subsidence craters from the testing. The NTS was the United States' primary location for tests smaller than 1 Mt 4.2 PJ. 126 tests were conducted elsewhere including most larger tests. Many of these occurred at the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands. The last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site was "Little Feller I" of Operation Sunbeam on July 17 1962. One hundred atmospheric nuclear tests were detonated at the Nevada Test Site originally the Nevada Proving Grounds between 1951 and 1963. The first Nevada series code-named Ranger was conducted during January and February 1951 immediately after President Harry S. Truman had approved the establishment of a continental test site in Nevada. During the early years testing schedules remained on a campaign basis alternating between the Nevada Test Site NTS and the Pacific Proving Ground. <br/><br/>In the early days of testing there was an urgent need to understand the science and engineering of these powerful new weapons their use on the battlefield and their effects. Tests were conducted for a variety of reasons-to test and prove new designs to assess the effects of nuclear weapons to develop warheads for specific delivery systems. Meteorologists monitored weather patterns pilots flew airplanes through the radioactive clouds to sample radiation levels and scientists "chased" fallout clouds across the Nevada desert to better understand offsite impacts. Ranger the first test series at the NTS was conducted in early 1951 with nuclear devices designed by Los Alamos scientists and airdropped from bombers out of Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque New Mexico. The next NTS series Buster-Jangle was a joint Los Alamos-Department of Defense DoD operation conducted during October-November 1951. The series tested both new weapons configurations and weapons effects. The DoD tests were designed to better understand the cratering capabilities of nuclear weapons for the battlefield. The test code-named Sugar was the only test ever detonated at the surface on the ground in Nevada-as opposed to an airdrop tower or balloon shot. It created a crater twenty-one feet deep and ninety feet wide. Buster-Jangle also involved the first troops from the U.S. Army's Atomic Maneuver Battalion stationed at Camp Desert Rock outside the test site town of Mercury. Between 1951 and 1955 thousands of military personnel from all service branches served at Desert Rock participating in maneuvers at the test site witnessing atomic blasts from trenches marching toward ground zero after detonations and collecting radiation effects information. National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office, Office of Public Affairs unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 81038

‎National Nuclear Security Administration, B53 SS-21 Dismantlement Team‎

‎B53 SS-21 Dismantlement Team Patch; Last of the Big Dogs‎

‎Amarillo TX: National Nuclear Security Administration Pantex Plant c2011. Presumed First thus. Patches. Very good. The patch is about 3.5 inches by 3.5 inches but the top is rounded so it is more like an arched window than a full square. It has a black border. The center has the image of the bomb a big dog and the text "B53" and "Last of the Big Dogs. On an orange border in black letters is "NNSA SS-21 Dismantlement DOE Pantex LANL LLNL SNL Y12 OST" From Wikipedia: The Mk/B53 was a high-yield bunker buster thermonuclear weapon developed by the United States during the Cold War. Deployed on Strategic Air Command bombers the B53 with a yield of 9 megatons was the most powerful weapon in the U.S. nuclear arsenal after the last B41 nuclear bombs were retired in 1976. The B53 was the basis of the W-53 warhead carried by the Titan II Missile which was decommissioned in 1987. Fifty B53s were retained during that time as part of the "hedge" portion of the Enduring Stockpile. The last B53 was disassembled on 25 October 2011 a year ahead of schedule. Development of the weapon began in 1955 by Los Alamos National Laboratory based on the earlier Mk 21 and Mk 46 weapons. In March 1958 the Strategic Air Command issued a request for a new Class C bomb to replace the earlier Mk 41. A revised version of the Mk 46 became the TX-53 in 1959. The Mk 53 entered production in 1962 and was built through June 1965. It entered service aboard B-47 Stratojet B-52G Stratofortress and B-58 Hustler bomber aircraft in the mid-1960s. From 1968 it was redesignated B53. Some early versions of the bomb were dismantled beginning in 1967. The B53 was also intended to be retired in the 1980s but 50 units remained in the active stockpile until the deployment of the B61-11 in 1997. At that point the obsolete B53s were slated for immediate disassembly; however the process of disassembling the units was greatly hampered by safety concerns as well as a lack of resources. In 2010 authorization was given to disassemble the 50 bombs at the Pantex plant in Texas. The process of dismantling the last remaining B53 bomb in the stockpile was completed in 2011. It was intended as a bunker buster weapon using a surface blast after laydown deployment to transmit a shock wave through the earth to collapse its target. Attacks against the Soviet deep underground leadership shelters in the Chekhov/Sharapovo area south of Moscow envisaged multiple B53/W53 exploding at ground level. It has since been supplanted in such roles by the earth-penetrating B61 Mod 11 a bomb that penetrates the surface to deliver much more of its explosive energy into the ground and therefore needs a much smaller yield to produce the same effects. The B53 was intended to be retired in the 1980s but 50 units remained in the active stockpile until the deployment of the B61-11 in 1997. At that point the obsolete B53s were slated for immediate disassembly; however the process of disassembling the units was greatly hampered by safety concerns and a lack of resources. The last remaining B53 bomb began the disassembly processes on Tuesday 25 October 2011 at the Energy Department's Pantex Plant. National Nuclear Security Administration, Pantex Plant unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 74113

‎National Nuclear Security Administration‎

‎Challenge Coin/Commemorative Coin. 60th Anniversary of U.S.-U.K. Mutual Defense Agreement‎

‎Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration 2018. Presumed First Edition First minting thus. Coin/Medal. As new. Approximately 2.25 inches in diameter.  Front side has a black band at the outer edge with Mutual Defense Agreement at the top 60 years of partnership and Security at the bottom and the center image has the flags of both nations large number 60 and smaller dates 1958 and 2018.  The back side has the same black band and text and the center has the following text:  Here we are together defending all that to free man is dear.  Prime Minister Winston Churchill Addressing the U.S. Congress December 24 1941.  The 1958 US-UK Mutual Defense Agreement or UK-US Mutual Defence Agreement is a bilateral treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom on nuclear weapons cooperation. The treaty's full name is Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for Cooperation on the uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defense Purposes. It allows the United States and the UK to exchange nuclear materials technology and information. While the US has nuclear cooperation agreements with other countries including France and some NATO countries this agreement is by far the most comprehensive. Harold Macmillan called it "the Great Prize" National Nuclear Security Administration unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 75706

‎National Nuclear Security Administration‎

‎Departure Ceremony for Marty Schoenbauer May 28 2008‎

‎Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration 2008. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Single sheet printed on both sides. Very good. This is an approximately 8.5 inch by 11 inch sheet of stiff card paper folded at the center to create four 5.5 by 8.5 inch panels. Illustrations are on the front and back panels. Text is on all panels. Marty was born February 191953 in St. Louis Park Minnesota. He was a graduate of Montgomery High School in 1971 the U.S. Naval Academy in 1975 and the George Washington University in 1981. Marty was a U.S. Naval officer for 20 years and civil servant for 20 years with 8 of those years in the Senior Executive Service of the U.S. Department of Energy. He retired for the third time in April 2018 after 4 years at Honeywell. Marty honorably served his country in a number of Uniformed Service civilian and private sector career. This event program marked his departure from the Office of Defense Programs to take on a critically important Department of Energy position at the United States Embassy in Beijing People's Republic of China where he was the Secretary's Representative and Senior DOE representative in China. Copies of such event programs rarely survive the event itself. Presiding at the departure event was Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs Robert L. Smolen and making the major presentation was Thomas P. D'Agostino Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration. The senior representative of the United States Department of Energy at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing China is responsible for leading a team to advance U.S. security and economic interests in the areas of energy science and technology and nuclear security and nonproliferation. In this role the senior representative is responsible for developing analyses and recommendations for the Secretary on key strategic initiatives with China related to the overall energy relationship. The representative is responsible for conducting in-depth analyses for comprehensive energy policy planning and strategic decision making on international energy policy and investment and trade issues. The representative provides insights briefings and other comprehensive analyses on key energy issues in China and Asia more broadly including on the issues of energy security clean energy development and deployment energy efficiency clean energy technology innovation and bilateral and multilateral cooperation initiatives among others. National Nuclear Security Administration unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 82252

‎National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Operations Office‎

‎Enhanced Test Readiness Cost Study‎

‎Las Vegas NV: NNSA 2002. First Edition. First Printing. very good. 69 spiral bound illus. some in color. DOE/NV-828. NNSA is part of the U.S. Department of Energy. This report contains the findings and recommendations of the test readiness cost study charted by John Gordon Administrator for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. This study addresses the costs of moving from a readiness posture of 24-36 months to an 18-month enhanced test readiness posture. NNSA unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 38203

‎National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office, Office of Public Affairs‎

‎Fuze Testing at Yucca Lake; Nevada Test Site History DOE/NV - - 1069‎

‎Las Vegas NV: National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office Office of Public Affairs 2005. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Single sheet printed on both sides. Very good. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Illustrations and text on both sides. The Nevada Test Site was the primary testing location of American nuclear devices from 1951 to 1992; 928 announced nuclear tests occurred there. Of those 828 were underground. Sixty-two of the underground tests included multiple simultaneous nuclear detonations adding 93 detonations and bringing the total number of NTS nuclear detonations to 1021 of which 921 were underground. The site is covered with subsidence craters from the testing. The NTS was the United States' primary location for tests smaller than 1 Mt 4.2 PJ. 126 tests were conducted elsewhere including most larger tests. Many of these occurred at the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands. The last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site was "Little Feller I" of Operation Sunbeam on July 17 1962. Sandia staff members traveled periodically from Salton Sea to Yucca Flat to test contact fuzing. Sandia conducted ballistic tests and monitored the operation of fuzing and firing systems. As requirements evolved it was determined that to test contact fuzing a large area of nearly "tabletop flat" land was needed. A temporary test site was secured in late 1954 on the bed of Yucca Lake in Nevada. National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office, Office of Public Affairs unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 81057

‎National Nuclear Security Administration Defense Programs‎

‎FY11-FY17 Effective Surveillance Program Requirements and Workload Planning‎

‎Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration Defense Programs 2010. Presumed first compilation--The number of copies made is unknown. Three Ring Binder. Good. Attendance list of 12-13 2011 Jan Surveillance Summit in front pocket--more than 30 names. List of 19 filled tabs 31 tabs present for 20-31 do not appear to have ever been filled. Tabbed items include: Effective Surveillance Program Memo dated 26 April 2010 then SNL LLNL and LANL responses then Requirements Workload Planning document of 22 Oct. 2010 followed by LLNL SRS KCP LANL PX SNL. Y12 NSO responses to the 22 Oct Memo followed by Summary of responses to 22 Oct Memo then followed by FYNSP responses from LLNL LANL and SNL followed by a Consolidated FYNSP responses. The 19th tab has the slides for workload meeting. Additional material in rear pocket: Surveillance Enterprise Governance 34 hard copy vugraphs 4 to a page--with some ink notations One page on NNSA Nuclear Weapons Surveillance Program 2 copies--one with notes on back One vugraph on FY 11 Surveillance Requirements and Over Targets with substantial notes Additional information on Consolidated Six Year Surveillance Requirements 12 sheets Greenaugh e-mail on Requirements workload 2 pages staples Illinger e-mail on Baselining New Surveillance Requirements 3 pages stapled Mangum e-mail on Surveillance Numbers 3 pages stapled 1 page on requires by site and funding program E-mail from Mangum on surveillance numbers 2 pages stapled with notes e-mail from Sinkular on NA 12 update 2 pages stapled with notes. Notes on November 5 2010 Goodrum Memo Teleconference and one page hardcopy vugraph on FY 11 Surveillance comparison. The use of data from surveillance of our nuclear weapons enables us to predict how the weapons will perform over time without nuclear explosive testing. This capability has improved significantly over the past decade and provides us with the capability to ensure an effective nuclear stockpile. Surveillance information is critical for the predictive models used in the annual nuclear weapon assessment process. These tools and the detailed quantitative modeling they support serve as key elements of the capability to maintain a safe secure and effective U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without underground nuclear explosive testing. The National Nuclear Security Administration NNSA annual assessment process has evolved significantly since the end of underground nuclear explosive testing to ensure an effective nuclear weapons stockpile. The current approach aims to achieve a comprehensive science-based understanding of nuclear weapon systems. Surveillance tools and models play critical roles in providing information essential to assessing weapon safety security and performance changes that would impact military effectiveness without performing underground nuclear explosive tests. These surveillance tools aid in the understanding of two conditions of weapons systems: the "as-built" and "as-aged" conditions. The "as-built" condition reflects the frequency and severity of original design or manufacturing defects. The "as-aged" condition reflects the evolution of age-related changes in materials components and subsystems that can alter performance. Over the last few years several advances in this area have contributed to a better understanding of the condition of our existing nuclear weapons and the ways in which the current condition could affect safety reliability or performance. Through the weapons surveillance program the U.S. has in-depth knowledge of the core components housed within weapons by using technologies such as nondestructive laser gas sampling and high-resolution computed tomography. System tests also assess the functionality of all major non-nuclear components. National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Programs unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 80985

‎National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Programs‎

‎High Explosives Integrated Strategy Team Files 11/12/2002; HE Team Closeout‎

‎Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Defense Programs 2002. Copy of Team Files. CD-R. Very good. This CD contains a treasure trove of information on High Explosive operations and facilities at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory the Los Alamos National Laboratory Sandia National Laboratories the Nevada Test Site and the Pantex Plant. This CD has the files that are excel spread sheets PDF files JPG files Power Point files and Word files. The material includes the scope team membership information from the sites information on sizing etc. This information was developed to address consolidation options between nuclear weapon laboratories and plants with an aim to reduce some costs. Major high explosive operations included research and development explosive testing detonator and small quantity production and 'main charge' production for nuclear weapons. Posted on-line--Los Alamos demonstrated the first use of plastic-bonded explosives in a nuclear explosion in 1956. This development allowed the shift from precision machined cast explosives to formulations containing high concentrations of high-energy density compounds with reduced sensitivity more uniformity and better mechanical characteristics. Since the 1960s Livermore has been researching and developing safer HE for Livermore-designed weapons. The plastic coating that binds the explosive granules typically 5 to 20% of each formulation by weight is what gives each PBX its distinctive characteristics. Pressing a PBX molding powder converts it into a solid mass with the polymer binder providing both mechanical rigidity and reduced sensitivity to accidental detonation. The choice of binder affects hardness safety and stability. The TATB-based formulations of Livermore's LX-17 and Los Alamos's PBX 9502 are "insensitive" high explosives IHE; others are termed "conventional." National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Programs unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 75230

‎National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office, Office of Public Affairs‎

‎Huron King; Nevada Test Site History DOE/NV - - 1089‎

‎Las Vegas NV: National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office Office of Public Affairs 2005. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Single sheet printed on both sides. Very good. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Illustrations and text on both sides. The Nevada Test Site was the primary testing location of American nuclear devices from 1951 to 1992; 928 announced nuclear tests occurred there. Of those 828 were underground. Sixty-two of the underground tests included multiple simultaneous nuclear detonations adding 93 detonations and bringing the total number of NTS nuclear detonations to 1021 of which 921 were underground. The site is covered with subsidence craters from the testing. The NTS was the United States' primary location for tests smaller than 1 Mt 4.2 PJ. 126 tests were conducted elsewhere including most larger tests. Many of these occurred at the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands. The last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site was "Little Feller I" of Operation Sunbeam on July 17 1962. The Huron King test was intended to address concerns about how atmospheric nuclear detonation might affect military communication satellites in orbit. A nuclear explosion produces a large electromagnetic pulse or EMP in short that can be used by an enemy to inflict secondary damage upon electrical and electronic systems by generating high levels of current and voltage surges to burn out sensitive components such as semi-conductors. An electromagnetic bomb can devastate and render functionless any modern society that rely on electricity by knocking out their power grid and disrupting communication equipment. In 1962 the US conducted a high-altitude nuclear test code-named "Starfish Prime" where they detonated a 1.44 megaton bomb 400 kilometers above the mid-Pacific Ocean. 1400 kilometers away in Hawaii the EMP blast knocked off streetlights set off burglar alarms and damaged a microwave link. In the months following the Starfish Prime test at least six low earth orbit satellites failed due to radiation damage including the one that was launched prior to the test to measure the distribution of radiation produced by the blast. In the Soviet Union too similar research on EMP was being conducted. The same year Starfish Prime took place Soviet scientists detonated a 300 kiloton bomb at an altitude of 290 km above Kazakhstan. To measure the effects of the EMP arising from the blast they strung a 570 kilometer-long overhead telephone line and fitted them with fuses and gas-filled overvoltage protectors. The EMP from the test caused all the fuses to blow and all of the overvoltage protectors to fire along the entire length of the test-line. Furthermore the EMP set on fire the electrical power plant in the city of Karaganda by inducing currents in a 1000 km long shallow buried power cable. Despite the lower yield of the bomb in comparison to that of Starfish Prime the EMP damage caused by the Soviet bomb was much greater because the tests were done over a large populated land mass and the earth's greater magnetic filed at the location also assisted to concentrate the effects of the EMP. National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Site Office, Office of Public Affairs unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 81055

‎National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation‎

‎Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention; Annual Report Fiscal Year 2001‎

‎Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation 2001. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Wraps. Very good. 19 13 pages. Mostly printed on both sides of a sheet. Sheets/project posters on several IPP projects are included at the back of this document. This year's report covers a year that involved a number of exciting developments in the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention IPP program. The program receives a significant vote of confidence for its commercialization focus with for successful IPP projects attracting $56 million in private venture capital funds. These funds were in addition to the already substantial contribution from U.S. industry partners who more than match U.S. government funding on each new IPP project. The IPP program also resumed operation in Kazakhstan and Ukraine adding the scientific talent of these countries to the technology resource base now available to U.S. industry partners. The program's nonproliferation objectives are met with increasing success as a growing number of former Soviet weapons scientists are engaged both in the course of ongoing work as well as in the jobs that are being created by successfully completed IPP projects. Preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is a central part of US national security policy. A principal instrument of the Department of Energy`s DOE`s program for securing weapons of mass destruction technology and expertise and removing incentives for scientists engineers and technicians in the newly independent states NIS of the former Soviet Union to go to rogue countries or assist terrorist groups is the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention IPP. IPP was initiated pursuant to the 1994 Foreign Operations Appropriations Act. IPP is a nonproliferation program with a commercialization strategy. IPP seeks to enhance US national security and to achieve nonproliferation objectives by engaging scientists engineers and technicians from former NIS weapons institutes; redirecting their activities in cooperatively-developed commercially viable non-weapons related projects. These projects lead to commercial and economic benefits for both the NIS and the US IPP projects are funded in Russian Ukraine Kazakhstan and Belarus. This booklet offers an overview of the IPP program as well as a sampling of some of the projects which are currently underway. National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 79902

‎National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Field Office/National Security Technologies, Office of Public Affairs‎

‎Joint Verification Experiment 25th Anniversary‎

‎Las Vegas NV: National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Field Office/National Security Technologies Office of Public Affairs 2013. Presumed First thus. DVD-RW. Very good. This has two files. One of JVE historic photographs as a powerpoint presentation with about 160 images. The second file is a WMV format and is about a 40 minute video of Ambassador Paul Robinson's remarks shown at the commemoration. The United States part of the Joint Verification Experiment carried out in 1988 as the Kearsarge event in Operation Touchstone. Twenty-five years later before tensions increased between Russia and the United States a joint commemoration of the event was held at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site formerly the Nevada Test Site. The objective of the JVE was to calibrate the seismic yield estimation capability of underground nuclear explosions conducted in both countries. It involved the unprecedented US yield measurement of a Soviet nuclear explosion at its then nuclear test site in Kazakhstan and the reciprocal Soviet yield measurement of a US nuclear explosion at the Nevada Test Site. JVE provided the first opportunity for scientists from US and Soviet nuclear weapons laboratories to meet and work cooperatively. At the Nevada Test Site and at the follow-on experiment at the Soviet Semipalatinsk Test Site they developed confidence-building steps that made possible the ratification of the TTBT in 1990. Both Russians and Americans agree that cooperation between US and Soviet nuclear weapons scientists began with the JVE and the follow-on discussions on the TTBT verification mechanisms during the Geneva negotiations. National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Field Office/National Security Technologies, Office of Public Affairs unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 76279