‎Administration‎

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center‎

‎Rendezvous and Proximity Operations Workshop February 19-22 1985; NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston Texas 77058‎

‎Houston TX: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center 1985. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Wraps. Good. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.5 inches. 21 3 pages plus covers. Cover has some wear and soiling. This is a workshop announcement. It includes information on the Sponsors and organizers workshop objectives workshop information tentative agenda--including information on individual sessions maps and registration form. This preliminary workshop information provides insight into the state of knowledge and the issues associated with rendezvous and proximity operations in the mid-1980s. A space rendezvous is a set of orbital maneuvers during which two spacecraft one of which is often a space station arrive at the same orbit and approach to a very close distance e.g. within visual contact. Rendezvous requires a precise match of the orbital velocities and position vectors of the two spacecraft allowing them to remain at a constant distance through orbital station-keeping. Rendezvous may or may not be followed by docking or berthing procedures which bring the spacecraft into physical contact and create a link between them. The same rendezvous technique can be used for spacecraft "landing" on natural objects with a weak gravitational field e.g. landing on one of the Martian moons would require the same matching of orbital velocities followed by a "descent" that shares some similarities with docking. Rendezvous was first successfully accomplished by US astronaut Wally Schirra on December 15 1965. Schirra maneuvered the Gemini 6 spacecraft within 1 foot 30 cm of its sister craft Gemini 7. The spacecraft were not equipped to dock with each other but maintained station-keeping for more than 20 minutes. The first docking of two spacecraft was achieved on March 16 1966 when Gemini 8 under the command of Neil Armstrong rendezvoused and docked with an uncrewed Agena Target Vehicle. Gemini 6 was to have been the first docking mission but had to be canceled when that mission's Agena vehicle was destroyed during launch. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 80616

‎Energy Research and Development Administration, Division of Magnetic Fusion Energy‎

‎Fusion Power by Magnetic Confinement; Program Plan/Executive Summary ERDA-76/110/0‎

‎Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1976. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. 16 pages plus covers. Illustrations some with color. Format is 10.5 inches by 8 inches. Number stamped on front cover. Stamp on rear cover. Some cover soiling. Corner has some curving. This is the executive summary of a detailed multi-volume program plan. This executive summary includes Goals Objectives and Applications; Fusion Advantages; Fusion Reactor Concept; Policy and Technical Variables; Program Logics; The Interplay Between Policy Variables Technical Variables and Program Logics. Also contains Options a multiplicity of potential paths for each approach to fusion power; Roll-back planning; and Conclusions as well as budget requirements detail and acknowledgments. This Program Plan spells out the options available to the Division of Magnetic Fusion Energy under a range of possible funding assumptions called "Program Logics." As such it represents a Division document and not necessarily the views of the top ERDA management. The Division believes however that the range of program logics and options presented will cover any eventualities which may arise in the course of setting program strategies with ERDA management OMB and Congress. Magnetic confinement fusion is an approach to generate thermonuclear fusion power that uses magnetic fields to confine fusion fuel in the form of a plasma. Magnetic confinement is one of two major branches of fusion energy research along with inertial confinement fusion. The magnetic approach began in the 1940s and absorbed the majority of subsequent development.<br/><br/>Fusion reactions combine light atomic nuclei such as hydrogen to form heavier ones such as helium producing energy. In order to overcome the electrostatic repulsion between the nuclei they must have a temperature of tens of millions of degrees creating a plasma. In addition the plasma must be contained at a sufficient density for a sufficient time as specified by the Lawson criterion triple product.<br/><br/>Magnetic confinement fusion attempts to use the electrical conductivity of the plasma to contain it through interaction with magnetic fields. The magnetic pressure offsets the plasma pressure. Developing a suitable arrangement of fields that contain the fuel without excessive turbulence or leaking is the primary challenge of this technology.<br/><br/>The development of magnetic fusion energy MFE came in three distinct phases. In the 1950s it was believed MFE would be relatively easy to achieve setting off a race to build a suitable machine. By the late 1950s it was clear that plasma turbulence and instabilities were problematic and during the 1960s "the doldrums" effort turned to a better understanding of plasma physics.<br/><br/>In 1968 a Soviet team invented the tokamak magnetic confinement device which demonstrated performance ten times better than alternatives and became the preferred approach. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 80331

‎United States Department of the Interior, Defense Electric Power Administration‎

‎Vulnerability of Electric Power Systems to Nuclear Weapons‎

‎Washington DC: United States Department of the Interior Defense Electric Power Administration 1964. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Good. vi 243 3 pages. Maps with some color Tables Figures. Notations on front cover and title page. Cover worn. RARE. This is the report of an engineering study on the vulnerability of the nation's electric power systems to attack by nuclear weapons. It was authorized by the Dept. of Defense Office of Civil Defense and the Dept. of the Interior Defense Electric Power Administration. The Office of Civil Defense realizing the necessity of having essential ventilation and illumination in community shelters sought a valid estimate of the electric power service that would be available under conditions following a nuclear attack. The results of this study were intended to provide the requisite estimate. It also contains useful information on the ability of the electric power industry to furnish power for decontamination and recovery during the survival period following the first 15 days of shelter confinement. The Defense Electric Power Administration was selected to perform this study because of its recent experience in conducting related studies. Representatives from more than 1500 operating companies contributed more than 50000 person hours to obtain and analyze much of the technical information and supporting data for the material contained in this report. This study was the most complete analysis made to date 1964 of the effects of an assumed full-scale nuclear attack on the nation's electric power industry. These effects were examined in detail to find out what they mean to the entire electric power industry in terms of physical damage to the generating plants transmission lines and related facilities. The report contains: Summary and Conclusions Study Problem Study Method Generating Capacities Preattack and Surviving Populations by States and Regions Time-Phased Load Capacity and Balance; Regional Summaries by States Time-Phased and Load Capacity and Balance:: Composite and National Summary of All Regions Time-Phased. This report illustrates the restrictive influence of the attack on such factors as power service capability interrelationship between electric power systems and restorational time. It takes into consideration a high-level national attack with nuclear weapons and evaluates its effects on generation facilities substation transformers transmission facilities and interconnections. This overall insight into conditions that will have to be met should be useful to the electric power industry when considering plans and programs to reduce vulnerability to attack and to provide service when and where needed postattack. The results of this study are of special significance to national security because they bear directly on the feasibility of a sound national fallout shelter program. In another sense the value of this study goes beyond the data contained in the report. As the first nationwide effort of its kind it established standards methods and format which can be used to guide future combined industry/government surveys to update or expand information on the vulnerability of electric power systems. The usefulness and validity of the study were increased by directing inquiry to the smallest practical reporting unit--the county. United States Department of the Interior, Defense Electric Power Administration paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 79107

‎National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Programs‎

‎FY 2016 Mid-Year Review Production Support & Management Technology and Production MTP; Feb 23rd -25th 2016‎

‎Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Defense Programs 2016. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Three Ring Binder. Good. Unpaginated with about 1.5 inches of material. This binder contains Tabs 1 through 7 on Management Technology and Production CNS Pantex CNS Y-12 NSC KC LANL LLNL SNL and SRS and Tabs 8 through 13 on Production Support CNS Pantex CNS Y-12 NSC KC LANL SNL and SRS Pencil notes on table of contents precedes Tab 1. Handwritten notes observed on several pages. Under MTP at Tab 4 LANL there is an additional sheet unpunched laid in entitled LANL FY 17 Budget Scenarios: Current Core & Transitional Scope. This work is a compilation of vuegraph presentations. While unmarked on the cover there is some material marked Official Use Only which it is understood not longer applies since that limitation was almost certainly due to the pre-decisional nature of then upcoming budget decisions. Such decisions were made a number of years ago such that there can be no fiscal or policy sensitivities remaining. Stockpile stewardship refers to the United States program of reliability testing and maintenance of its nuclear weapons without the use of nuclear testing. Because no new nuclear weapons have been developed by the United States since 1992 even its youngest weapons are at least 27 years old as of 2020. Aging weapons can fail or act unpredictably in a number of ways: the high explosives that condense their fissile material can chemically degrade their electronic components can suffer from decay their radioactive plutonium/uranium cores are potentially unreliable and the isotopes used by thermonuclear weapons may be chemically unstable as well. Since the United States has also not tested nuclear weapons since 1992 this leaves the task of its stockpile maintenance resting on the use of simulations using non-nuclear explosives tests and supercomputers among other methods and applications of scientific knowledge about physics and chemistry to the specific problems of weapons aging the latter method is what is meant when various agencies refer to their work as "science-based". It also involves the manufacture of additional plutonium "pits" to replace ones of unknown quality and finding other methods to increase the lifespan of existing warheads and maintain a confident nuclear deterrent. Most work for stockpile stewardship is undertaken at United States Department of Energy national laboratories mostly at Los Alamos National Laboratory Sandia National Laboratories Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory the Nevada Test Site and Department of Energy productions facilities which employ around 27500 personnel and cost billions of dollars per year to operate. The Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program is a United States Department of Energy program to ensure that the nuclear capabilities of the United States are not eroded as nuclear weapons age. National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Programs unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 79773

‎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

‎Foreign Economic Administration, Enemy Branch‎

‎A Program for German Economic and Industrial Disarmament; A Study Submitted by the Foreign Economic Administration Enemy Branch to the Subcommittee on War Mobilization of the Committee on Military Affairs United States Senate‎

‎Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1946. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Fair. xv 1 377 1 pages. Tables. 79th Congress 2d Session Senate Subcommittee Monograph No. 6. Covers worn some creasing to pages. Front cover separated at lower staple and partially separated at upper staple. Cover page is fragile. Includes Introductory Note Memorandum of Transmittal and Preface as well as sections on The Program in Brief The Program in Detail Administration of the Program and Economic Aspects of the Program. Appendixes will be printed as a separate document. The Enemy Branch of the Foreign Economic Administration made clear that this study should not be characterized as an expression of the adopted policy or program of the United States Government except as the policy recommended may have been reflected in the Yalta Declaration the Berlin Protocol or public announcements by the President or the Secretary of State. This report was submitted as a final accounting of the work of the Enemy Branch. The content were related to the Morgenthau Plan for the partitioning of Germany and its disarmament and deindustrialization but was distinct from that proposal. The report provides a support brief for the general principles on German economic and industrial disarmament. The report provides a specific and detailed program for executing those principles on German economic and industrial disarmament and the report outlines a long-term program for a lasting and permanent control of Germany's war-making power. In the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt the Foreign Economic Administration FEA was formed to relieve friction between US agencies operating abroad on September 25 1943. As described by the biographer of the FEA's chief Leo Crowley the agency was designed and run by "The Nation's #1 Pinch-hitter". S. L. Weiss describes Crowley's management style as follows: "Based on his own success in Washington he had concluded that sound administration meant clearly demarcating lines of authority between agencies and within each finding the right staff and giving it only the most basic guidance and coordination". Weiss' evidence for Crowley's design is a memo Crowley sent to James Byrnes on September 21 1943 of "his assessment of the conflict and confusion among the economic agencies operating abroad. His lengthy memorandum argued that the major culprit was the State Department which interfered with or micromanaged the execution of policy when it should only formulate and coordinate it. That led to problems in the field ranging from wasteful duplication or the more critical problems of needless delays and confusion". Weiss details these problems: "The British . were complaining of difficulty in dealing with 'conflicting jurisdictions' in North Africa; and the New York Times was emphasizing 'uncertainty regarding the representative spheres of OEWOffice of Economic Warfare Lend-Lease and OFRRO Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations . friction between OEW and the War Food Administration as regards foreign food purchases". According to the New York Times September 26 1943 Roosevelt said on the occasion of the establishment of the FEA: Crowley is "one of the best administrators in or out of government whom I find great satisfaction in promoting . to a position which will centralize all foreign economic operations in one operating agency". Crowley quickly got to work streamlining his new realm of 4009 employees at home and abroad. He merged fourteen agencies combined into FEA into four and created two bureaus the Bureau of Areas and the Bureau of Supplies. In general the Bureau of Areas was in charge of determining the needs of the various regions of the world while the supply side was then responsible for fulfilling those requirements . . the FEA was in charge of a dazzling array of functions. The global dimension of the FEA is demonstrated by the fact that in 1944 it had forty-three offices total with some on every continent except Antarctica. U. S. Government Printing Office paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 79512

‎US. Department of Energy, Office of Management and Administration, History Division and the Office of Science Intern Program U.‎

‎Germantown Site History‎

‎Washington DC: U.S. Department of Energy. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Brochure. Very good. The brochure is a single sheet printed on both sides tri-folded approximately 14.25 inches by 25.5 inches with each panel approximately 4.75 inches by 8.5 inches. Illustrations. The United States Department of Energy complex is one of two administrative complexes of the United States Department of Energy. It is located at 19901 Germantown Road in Germantown Maryland on a campus originally developed in the 1950s as the headquarters of the Atomic Energy Commission. The complex's original five buildings were designed by the New York City architectural firm Voorhees Walker Smith & Smith a firm prominent in the development of laboratories and associated facilities. It was sited at what was believed to a distance far enough from Washington DC to survive a nuclear blast on that city. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. The United States Atomic Energy Commission commonly known as the AEC was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology. President Harry S. Truman signed the McMahon/Atomic Energy Act on August 1 1946 transferring the control of atomic energy from military to civilian hands effective on January 1 1947. This shift gave the members of the AEC complete control of the plants laboratories equipment and personnel assembled during the war to produce the atomic bomb. In creating the AEC Congress declared that atomic energy should be employed not only in the form of nuclear weapons for the nation's defense but also to promote world peace improve the public welfare and strengthen free competition in private enterprise. At the same time the McMahon Act which created the AEC also gave it unprecedented powers of regulation over the entire field of nuclear science and technology. U.S. Department of Energy unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 78373

‎United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration and BWXT Pantex‎

‎NA-12 Round Robin Pantex‎

‎Amarillo TX: United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration and BWXT Pantex 2004. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Spiral bound. Very good. Various paginations approximately 1/2 inch of material including stiff card tabs. 19 tabbed sections with vugraphs rather than text. This is marked Official Use Only exemption category 2h. Based upon Supreme Court rulings and other guidance this limitation is understood to no longer apply. The Pantex Plant is the primary United States nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility that aims to maintain the safety security and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile. The facility is located near Amarillo Texas. The plant is managed and operated for the U. S. Department of Energy by Consolidated Nuclear Security and Sandia National Laboratories. Consolidated Nuclear Security LLC CNS is composed of member companies Bechtel National Inc. Leidos Inc. Orbital ATK Inc. and SOC LLC with Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. CNS also operates the Y-12 National Security Complex. Among the topics covered are: Authorization Basis/USQ Process Lightning W56 Incident Electro-Static Discharge Multi-Unit Processing Tooling LEP Preparations IWAP Program Management Budget Laboratory Partnership/Relations SMRI Performance Indicators Safety QA Delivery Performance Maintenance Software Quality Assurance SQA Long Term Operating Plan and BWXT Pantex Long-Term View. United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration and BWXT Pantex unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 77646

‎United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Military Application and Stockpile Operations, Off‎

‎Analysis of 40-Year Nuclear Fuel Supply for Tritium Production; Final‎

‎Washington DC: United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Military Application and Stockpile Operations Office of Stockpile Technology 2006. Presumed First Edition First printing. Spiral bound. Very good. Clear plastic sheet protects front and back covers. 2 vi 48 pages printed on one side only. Acronyms and Abbreviations. Chemicals and Units of Measure. Figures. Tables. References. Appendix A--Uranium Resource Classification System. Appendix B-- Nuclear Fuel Sources Evaluation; B.1 Evaluation Methodology and Results; B.2 Definition of Uranium Source Evaluation Terms. The strategic importance of assuring a supply of tritium constitutes the impetus for this analysis to identify a 40-year supply of nuclear fuel for the nuclear power plants used to produce tritium concurrently with the generation of civilian nuclear power. Assuring the nuclear fuel supply for those plants is one component of demonstrating that DOE can provide tritium for U.S. nuclear weapons with a high degree of confidence. Ms. Nanette D. Founds was listed as the Tritium Readiness Subprogram Manager Diversification is a prudent approach to achieving the highest probability of success in ensuring a long-term nuclear fuel supply because it reduces reliance on one source or technology and allows for flexibility to accommodate the dynamic nuclear fuel market. For a diversified mix of acceptable nuclear fuel supply sources the analysis recommended that NNSA take a series of specified actions to ensure the highest possible confidence in a 40-year nuclear fuel supply for the nuclear power plants then currently employed in the production of tritium for the National Nuclear Security Administration. Among the steps advocated included: allocation of a portion of the DOE inventory of depleted uranium hexafluoride use of market-based uranium procurement procedures to swap or barter for uranium appropriate for use for the tritium program and traditional procurement of U.S.-origin uranium. United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Military Application and Stockpile Operations, Off unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 77506

‎National Nuclear Security Administration‎

‎Engineering Campaign Technology Roadmap; Translating Vision into Reality for Defense Engineering‎

‎Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration 2009. Presumed First Edition First printing. Velobound. Very good. 34 pages including covers. Figures color. Acronyms. Plastic sheet protects front and back covers. This had been marked "Official Use Only" but due to the passage of time and commercial and technology developments it is understood that this limitation no longer applies. The Engineering Campaign Focus Areas were: Robust Surety Responsive Weapon Engineering Performance in Radiation Environments Enhanced Lifetime Assessments and Engineering Infrastructure. The Engineering Campaign provides the Nuclear Security Enterprise with modern technologies tools and capabilities to ensure the safety security reliability and performance of the current and future US nuclear weapon stockpile and provides the nuclear weapon enterprise with a sustained engineering basis for stockpile assessment and certification. The Engineering Campaign Technology Roadmap serves as the long-term program guidance from the federal program managers to the Engineering Campaign community linking the National Nuclear Security Administration mission vision and program structure to the planning and execution of the Engineering Campaign program. National Nuclear Security Administration unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 77514

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration‎

‎COSMIC; NASA Software‎

‎Athens GA: University of Georgia 1992. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Wraps. Good. 22 2 pages. Illustrations. COSMIC is the NASA Computer Software Management and Information Center a central office established to distribute software developed with NASA funding. Since its beginning in 1966 COSMIC has been operated by the University of Georgia. Its role as part of the NASA Technology Transfer Network is to ensure that industry other government agencies and academic institutions will have access to the advanced computer software technology which was produced for NASA projects. This booklet contains abstracts of a few of the 1200 computer programs available for use within the United States. A complete catalogue of computer programs was published each year. Program source code was provided in most cases to permit modification or reuse in individual user applications. The program documentation was sold separately to allow users to review program capabilities in detail before making a purchase decision. The booklet includes descriptions of some of the more popular NASA-developed programs. This COSMIC Sampler booklet includes information on NASTRAN STAGSC-1 SAGE2D SINDA '85/FLUINT TRASYS SURE PAWS/STEM TAE 5.1 ELAS CLIPS 5.0 PLOT3D NMSB Movie PMARC CET89 and GEMPAK. University of Georgia paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 77324

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration‎

‎NASA Space Shuttle Columbia Commemorative Patch - BLUE RIBBON‎

‎Asheville NC: A-B Emblem 2003. Presumed First issue thus. The patch is approximately 5 inches in length at its maximum and approximately 3.5 at its maximum width. The patch is a silhouette of Columbia is draped in a blue ribbon with 7 stars including the Star of David  is a tribute to the heroes of STS-107. There is no text on this commemorative patch. It is Design 105349. STS-107 was the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program and the final flight of Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 16 2003 and during its 15 days 22 hours 20 minutes 32 seconds in orbit conducted a multitude of international scientific experiments. Columbia began re-entry as planned but the heat shield was compromised due to damage sustained during the initial ascent. The heat of re-entry was free to spread into the damaged portion of the orbiter ultimately causing its disintegration and the loss of all seven crew members. Since February 24 1971 A-B Emblem has been the exclusive supplier of patches to the astronaut's office and has held the contract ever since. They make every mission and expedition patch that is sold to NASA and fly in space. Pre-computer era the commander of the mission would often fly in a T-38 to the Asheville airport and come personally to the factory to help our designers morph their graphics into art using needle and thread. The commander still gets the honor of designing the mission patch but with email and digital files the commander no longer needs to physically fly to Asheville to get the job done. A-B Emblem unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 77131

‎US. Federal Election Commission, National Clearinghouse on Election Administration U. S.‎

‎CFR Title 11 Federal Elections Proposed Standards for the Hardware Elements of Punchcard and Marksense Voting Systems; Subchapter X - Voting System Standards Part 10001- General Rules and Regulations‎

‎Washington DC: U.S. Federal Election Commission National Clearinghouse on Election Administration 1985. Xerox copy of draft document. Wraps Stapled in the Upper Right Corner. Good. 3 38 pages. This is printed and paginated single-sided. This has Subpart A -Scope and Definitions and Subpart B - Equipment Authorization Procedures. Within Subpart B there are General Provisions Application Procedures and Conditions Attendant to a Grant of Authorization. An independent regulatory agency created in 1975 to administer and enforce the Federal Election Campaign Act the FEC spent three-years developing and revising Voting System Standards VSS to ensure the reliability of certified election equipment used in local state and federal elections. The standards cover the functionality and testing of paper-based i.e. punchcards and electronic i.e. touch screens or keyboards systems as well as performance features such as vote tallying and audit trails. The primary goal of VSS is to provide a mechanism for state and local election officials to assure the public of the integrity of computer-based election systems and to provide a common set of requirements across all voting technologies. "The main focus of the Federal Election Commission's FEC project to develop standards for election equipment is to ensure that the U.S. voting process accurately reflects the wishes of the American people" explained Penelope Bonsall director of the FEC Office of Election Administration. According to the FEC the drafts generated significant interest from a variety of interests whose views are reflected in the final version. There is a wide range of possible voting systems in the world today some of which are currently in use while others are strictly theoretical. These various systems can be broken down into three "families": plurality semi-proportional and proportional systems. The voting systems within a particular "family" tend to produce similar outcomes and tend to resemble each other in terms of their advantages and disadvantages. The main differences are therefore between the families not within them. U.S. Federal Election Commission, National Clearinghouse on Election Administration paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 77145

‎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

‎National Nuclear Security Administration‎

‎JVE English 10/13 Written in ink on disk‎

‎National Nuclear Security Administration 2013. Presumed First thus. CD-RW. Very good. This has one file with 27 powerpoint items on it. These include presentations by Shubin Loparev Zheleznov McDowell Wallace Warner Lehman Hecker Voloshin Reis Zucca Sandoval Petrov Felske Hawkins and Ponomarev plus panel related material and the JVE coin. Among the topics covered include Trust but Verify Optimizing Rosatom JVE Results Seismic Hydrodynamic Monitoring Geophysics Geology Technical Elements Next Steps and Future Cooperation. 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. 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 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 76280

‎United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administrations, Defense Programs‎

‎Accelerated Simulation and Computing Program Plan 2002-2003; DOE/DP/ASC-2002-ASCI-Prog-002‎

‎Washington DC: United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Defense Programs 2002. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. iv 55 3 pages. Illustrations. Acronyms & Abbreviations. Glossary. This type of document is very ephemeral and it is believed that very few copies have survived in the more than two decades since it was issued. The United States government's Strategic Computing Initiative funded research into advanced computer hardware and artificial intelligence from 1983 to 1993. The initiative was designed to support various projects that were required to develop machine intelligence in a prescribed ten-year time frame from chip design and manufacture computer architecture to artificial intelligence software. The project was superseded in the 1990s by the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative and then by the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program. These later programs did not include artificial general intelligence as a goal but instead focused on supercomputing for large scale simulation such as atomic bomb simulations. The Advanced Simulation and Computing Program or ASC is a super-computing program run by the National Nuclear Security Administration in order to simulate test and maintain the United States nuclear stockpile. The program was created in 1995 in order to support the Stockpile Stewardship Program or SSP. The goal of the initiative is to extend the lifetime of the current aging stockpile. Among the sections in the Table of Contents are: Stockpile Stewardship Defense Applications Computer Science Integrated Computing Systems Strategic Alliances Verification and Validation Physics Modeling Weapons Simulation Modeling and Simulation Level 1 Milestones High Explosives Advanced Visualization Detonation Wave Titan IV Solid Rocket Motor Metropolis Center JCEL. United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Programs paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 76354

‎United States National Nuclear Security Administration Defense Programs‎

‎Final Report for the Plutonium Pit Production Analysis of Alternatives‎

‎Washington DC: United States National Nuclear Security Administration Defense Programs 2017. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Wraps. Very good. Various paginations approximately 400 pages. Figures. Tables. Appendices. List of Acronyms. This had previously been Marked Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information but this marking has been struck through on every page where it had appeared. The National Nuclear Security Administration requires a sustained production capacity of no fewer than 80 pits per year PPY by 2030. NNSA is developing and installing capability at LANL in Plutonium Facility PF-4 to produced 30 ppy by 2026. The Analysis of Alternatives AOA for meeting pit production requirements completed in September 2017 assessed alternatives to close this identified mission gap in the NNSA's pit production capability. The AoA is a post Critical Decision CD-0 pre-CD-1 activity to identify a preferred alternative for conceptual design in preparation for the Deputy Secretary of Energy to make a program decision at CD-1. The pit named after the hard core found in fruits such as peaches and apricots is the core of an implosion nuclear weapon - the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it. Some weapons tested during the 1950s used pits made with U-235 alone or in composite with plutonium but all-plutonium pits are the smallest in diameter and have been the standard since the early 1960s. Between 1954 and 1989 pits for US weapons were produced at the Rocky Flats Plant; the plant was later closed due to numerous safety issues. In 1996 the pit production was also relocated to Los Alamos. The current LANL production of new pits is limited to about 20 pits per year though NNSA is pushing to increase the production for the Reliable Replacement Warhead program. The US Congress however has repeatedly declined funding. Up until around 2010 Los Alamos National Laboratory had the capacity to produce 10 to 20 pits a year. United States, National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Programs paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 76194

‎National Nuclear Security Administration‎

‎Milestone Tool‎

‎Albuquerque NM: National Nuclear Security Administration 2003. Presumed First Edition First printing. Brochure. Very good. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Tri-folded. Print on three panels on one side and one panel on the other side. This is a brochure for the Nuclear Weapons Complex Milestone Reporting Tool MRT. It described Online MRT access. Users needed a User name and a KERBEROS Password. There is a screen shot and directons about adding a milestone editing a milestone viewing a milestone deleting a milestone and preparing Milestone reports. The Milestone Reporting Tool was a web-based tool for the assessment and reporting of Nuclear Weapon Complex National Milestones. This tool was supported by Sandia for the National Nuclear Security Administration. The U.S. nuclear weapons complex consists of a national industrial infrastructure for the physical production of nuclear weapons and their deployment systems as well as the scientific-engineering workforces that are responsible for the research and design of nuclear weapons and the federal workforce that integrates the nuclear weapons complex into U.S. military planning and operations. The industrial sites of the nuclear weapons complex include sites for the research and design of nuclear weapons the production of weapons components including plutonium pits the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons and sites for the final assembly and storage of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons are a multi-billion dollar a year enterprise in the United States. The workforce of the nuclear weapons complex at its main sites now consists of approximately 51000 persons spread across the United States working in the main labs factories and offices responsible for the bomb. National Nuclear Security Administration unknown‎

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‎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

‎United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Programs‎

‎ASC V&V Workshop; July 13-14 2004 La Jolla California‎

‎United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Defense Programs 2004. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. DVD. Very good. DVD has 40 files and many of them are folders. On July 13-14 2004 the Caltech ASC Level 1 Center hosted an ASC TriLab V&V Workshop in La Jolla CA to discuss and compare what the NNSA laboratories and the ASC Level 1 University Centers are learning with respect to code verification and validation. About 50 people participated in the workshop. Presentations were organized into four sessions and moderated by key V&V personnel from the NNSA labs and ASC Centers: 1 V&V Program Overviews Jamileh Soudah ASC HQ - Chair 2 Code and Solution Verification Tomek Plewa University of Chicago Flash Center - Chair 3 Validation Experiments Dan Meiron Caltech ASC Center - Chair 4 Validation and Uncertainty Quantification Tony Giunta Sandia - Chair The workshop began with V&V overviews presented by speakers from Los Alamos Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories and the ASC Level 1 Alliance Centers at Caltech the University of Chicago the University of Illinois Stanford University and the University of Utah. These baseline presentations were followed by talks addressing approaches and lessons learned in code and solution verification designing and implementing validation experiments and what has been accomplished and remains to be done in uncertainty qualification. At the end of the workshop Dan Meiron Caltech hosted a discussion to summarize commonalities across the lab and university programs and identify collaborative efforts that might follow this workshop. The workshop began with V&V overviews presented by speakers from Los Alamos Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories and the ASC Level 1 Alliance Centers at Caltech the University of Chicago the University of Illinois Stanford University and the University of Utah. These baseline presentations were followed by talks addressing approaches and lessons learned in code and solution verification designing and implementing validation experiments and what has been accomplished and remains to be done in uncertainty qualification. At the end of the workshop Dan Meiron Caltech hosted a discussion to summarize commonalities across the lab and university programs and identify collaborative efforts that might follow this workshop. The purpose of this document is to provide a synopsis of the key issues discussed during the workshop. The intent is not to review the substance of the technical presentations which are available from the Caltech V&V Workshop web site and CD but to provide a record of the important issues raised during the workshop discussion and interaction. Input for this synopsis comes primarily from the summary session moderated by Dan Meiron and notes taken during the course of the workshop sessions. United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Programs unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 75433

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration‎

‎Beyond Einstein; From the Big Bang to Black Holes. NP-2006-11-801-GSFC‎

‎Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2007. Third Printing stated. Wraps. Very good. 12 pages plus covers. Illustrations color. Sources of Further Information. How did the Universe begin Does time have a beginning and an end Does space have edges Einstein's theory of relativity replied to these ancient questions with three startling predictions: that the Universe is expanding from a Big Bang; that black holes so distort space and time that time stops at their edges; and that a dark energy could be pulling space apart sending galaxies forever beyond the edge of the visible Universe. Observations confirm these remarkable predictions the last finding only four years ago. Yet Einstein's legacy is incomplete. His theory raises - but cannot answer - three profound questions: What powered the Big Bang What happens to space time and matter at the edge of a black hole and What is the mysterious dark energy pulling the Universe apart The Beyond Einstein program within NASA's office of space science aims to answer these questions employing a series of missions linked by powerful new technologies and complementary approaches to shared science goals. The program also serves as a potent force with which to enhance science education and science literacy. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. President Dwight D. Eisenhower established NASA in 1958 with a distinctly civilian rather than military orientation encouraging peaceful applications in space science. The agency became operational on October 1 1958. Since that time most US space exploration efforts have been led by NASA including the Apollo Moon landing missions the Skylab space station and later the Space Shuttle. The agency is also responsible for the Launch Services Program LSP which provides oversight of launch operations and countdown management for unmanned NASA launches. NASA science is focused on better understanding Earth through the Earth Observing System advancing heliophysics through the efforts of the Science Mission Directorate's Heliophysics Research Program exploring bodies throughout the Solar System with advanced robotic spacecraft missions and researching astrophysics topics. National Aeronautics and Space Administration paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 75464

‎National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Space Science Advisory Committee, Subcommittee on The Structure and Evolution of‎

‎Cosmic Journeys to the Edge of Gravity Space and Time; Structure and Evolution of the Universe Roadmap: 2003-2023 NP=2000-5-052-GSFC‎

‎Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1999. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. 6 63 3 pages. Illustrations color. Cover has slight wear and soiling. The Roadmap for the Structure and Evolution of the Universe SEU theme embraces three fundamental scientific quests: To explain structure in the Universe and forecast our cosmic destiny; To explore the cycles of matter and energy in the evolving Universe; and To examine the ultimate limits of gravity and energy in the Universe. NASA developed these quests into six focused research campaigns: 1 Identify dark matter and learn how it shapes galaxies and systems of galaxies; 2 Explore where and when the chemical elements were made; 3 Understand the cycles in which matter energy and magnetic field are exchanged between stars and the gas between stars; 4 Discover how gas flows in disks and how cosmic jets are formed; 5 Identify the sources of gamma-ray bursts and high-energy cosmic rays; 6 Measure how strong gravity operates near black holes and how it affects the early Universe. These campaigns lead to a portfolio of future major missions of great scientific interest and popular appeal strongly endorsed by the scientific community. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. President Eisenhower established NASA in 1958 with a distinctly civilian orientation encouraging peaceful applications in space science. Most US space exploration efforts have been led by NASA including the Apollo Moon landing missions the Skylab space station and later the Space Shuttle. NASA is supporting the International Space Station and is overseeing the development of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle the Space Launch System and Commercial Crew vehicles. The agency is also responsible for the Launch Services Program LSP which provides oversight of launch operations and countdown management for unmanned NASA launches. NASA science is focused on better understanding Earth through the Earth Observing System advancing heliophysics through the efforts of the Science Mission Directorate's Heliophysics Research Program exploring bodies throughout the Solar System with advanced robotic spacecraft missions and researching astrophysics topics. National Aeronautics and Space Administration paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 75461

‎US. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration and U. K. Ministry of Defence U. S.‎

‎Mutual Defense Agreement 1958 - 2018; 60 Years of Partnership and Security‎

‎Washington DC: U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration and U. K. Ministry of Defence 2018. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. 3 38 3 plus covers. Timeline. Illustrations many in color. Maps. 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". The treaty was signed on 3 July 1958 after the Soviet Union shocked the American public with the Sputnik crisis on 4 October 1957 and the British hydrogen bomb programme successfully tested a hydrogen bomb in the Operation Grapple test on 8 November 1957. The Anglo-American Special Relationship proved mutually beneficial although it was never one of equals; the United States was far larger than Britain both militarily and economically. Britain soon became dependent on the United States for its nuclear weapons as it lacked the resources to produce a range of designs. The treaty allowed American nuclear weapons to be supplied to Britain through Project E for the use by the Royal Air Force and British Army of the Rhine. The treaty provided for the sale to the UK of one complete nuclear submarine propulsion plant plus ten years' supply of enriched uranium to fuel it. Other nuclear material was also acquired from the United States under the treaty. including 7.5 tonnes of highly enriched uranium although much of the highly enriched uranium was used as fuel for the growing fleet of UK nuclear submarines. The treaty paved the way for the Polaris Sales Agreement and the Royal Navy ultimately acquired entire weapons systems with the UK Polaris programme and Trident nuclear programme using American missiles with British nuclear warheads. The treaty has been amended and renewed nine times. The most recent renewal extended it to 31 December 2024. U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration and U. K. Ministry of Defence paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 75547

‎National Nuclear Security Administration Defense Programs Program Integration Office Office of Program Management & Evaluatio‎

‎Weapon Surveillance Facility IPT Final Report ; Requirements Doc. Expert Choice Files 7/25/08 written on disc label side‎

‎Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration Defense Programs Program Integration Office Office of Program Management & Evaluation 2008. Presumed First Edition First issuance of disc content included draft material. CD-R. Good. The NNSA proposed a new Weapon Surveillance Facility WSF for non-destructive weapon and pit surveillance to supplement the existing Weapons Evaluation Test Laboratory. By relocating some testing now done at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory the NNSA says the new WSF would help consolidate non-destructive testing facilities and reduce the number of sites in the nuclear weapons complex with Category I/II SNM. Since all significant quantities of Cat I/II SNM have now been removed from Livermore the NNSA must either find another location for the environmental testing carried out there or seek special authorization to allow Livermore to continue working with SNM for limited periods. The WSF could also free up some Pantex bays now used for evaluation to return to use for assembly/disassembly operations. This CD includes a draft final report of the Weapon surveillance Facility Integrated Project Team unfilled out Official Use Only stamp which as such has no force or effect. In addition to the 23 page draft report there are six word Expert Choice files Minimize investment Impact Minimize Cost Impact Workforce Impact Reduced Length of Transition Reduce square footage Storage Consolidation Decision Criteria and WSF Design Criteria. Some of the functions were being performed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory building 332 but the major emphasis was on options for new construction at Pantex. This type of material rarely survives in either hardcopy or electronic form. This offers a rare snapshot into facility planning and mission assignments within the United States Nuclear Weapons Complex. National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Programs, Program Integration Office, Office of Program Management & Evalu unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 75228

‎United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration‎

‎Surveillance Training - SFIs‎

‎Washington DC: United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration 2005. Presumed First Edition First issuance thus. VHS Tape. Very good. This is a standard VHS tape approximately 4 inches by 7 inches with a hand written label stating Surveillance Training - SFIs 45 min. No classification or information use limitation on label or tape sleeve. The tape has been partially played but not rewound. Significant Finding Investigations were addressed in DOE/IG-0535 Audit Report Management of the Stockpile Surveillance Program's Significant Finding Investigations December 2001. The Directors of the three nuclear weapons laboratories annually assess and report the condition of the weapon systems for which their laboratories are responsible. A critical event in this process is the identification of a defect or malfunction during surveillance testing. This is especially important when dealing with an aging weapons stockpile. Departmental procedures require preliminary tests or evaluations to establish whether a Significant Finding Investigation SFI should be initiated. Such investigations are then conducted to determine the identified problem's cause and impact and to recommend corrective actions. Weapons surveillance began in the US in the mid-1960s when weapons testing was done through underground explosions of nuclear devices. Such testing continued until the early 1990s. If tests on a weapon system show an anomaly - a possible problem with a part that could jeopardize the system operation - with a system evaluation engineer SEE is notified. It is the SEE's job to determine if the anomaly could affect the surety safe use or reliability of the weapon. If the SEE makes that determination he/she opens a "significant finding investigation SFI. The responsibility of the investigation team is to determine the cause and impact of the defect and to make recommendations for corrective actions. United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 75219