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1946réf. 79512Washington 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
1964réf. 79107Washington 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
1998réf. 77307Cleveland OH: National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Lewis Research Center Space Communications Program 1998. Presumed First Edition First printing of this Premier Issue. Wraps. Very good. 15 1 pages. Illustrations. Mailing information and ink notation on back cover. Minor wear and soiling noted. This is the premier issue of a quarterly publication of the Space Communications Program at the NASA Lewis Research Center. As such it has become an extremely rare item in the space and the collectibles markets. A substantial amount of this issue's content is related to ACTS the Advance Communications Technology Satellite. NASA is developing architecture technologies communication system technologies and subsystem and component technologies to enable NASA's future missions in science and human exploration. We develop space communication architectures via commercial ventures and international forums and we are a major supporter of extending the Internet into space. Technologies are being developed to support intelligent autonomous communications architectures that enable anytime anywhere operations and provide end-to-end information delivery from space directly to users. Through coordinated studies with other NASA centers government agencies industry and academia our scientists and engineers are designing feasible communication network architectures that enable the storage transmission and dynamic routing of large amounts of data at high rates among space assets and between space and ground assets. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA Lewis Research Center, Space Communications Program paperback
2006réf. 77506Washington 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
2002réf. 77513Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration c2002. Presumed First Edition First printing. Spiral bound. Very good. Format is approximately 11 inches by 8.5 inches. 30 pages plus covers. Maps. Footnotes. Illustrations many in color. Cover has slight wear and soiling. This document is a high-level synopsis of the full National Nuclear Security Administration's Applied Technology Roadmap. The larger document is the product of a collaborative effort by the NNSA and contractor representatives to the Applied Technology team. Representatives from all of the eight sites comprising the NWC as well as other NNSA staff from headquarters and several field offices participated in several workshops. The authors acknowledged a debt to the group that compiled the NNSA Applied Engineering Testing & Manufacturing Capabilities book. There were four pillars in the roadmap: Flexible Agile Manufacturing; Model-Based Design and Development; Responsive Integrated Enterprise; and Adaptable Knowledge-Enabled Workforce. The Nuclear Weapons Complex relies on the unique synergy created among the design laboratories and the production plants. The laboratories provide a strong science base while the production plants are capable of unmatched precision in producing a wide variety of materials components and assemblies. Together the laboratories and plants can transform a concept into specialized hardware to meet very demanding requirements. The complex thus created in a security environment for synthesizing and processing a wide variety of materials including hazardous and radioactive components. The Applied Technology Roadmap shows how the synergy of the NWC science and technologies base will be used to provide national defense for tomorrow. The most efficient way to support the nation is to build the 'pillars' formed from enabling technologies that rest upon the foundation of NWC capabilities capitalizing on existing and future investment in the NWC. National Nuclear Security Administration unknown
2001réf. 77586Washington DC: Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Defense Programs ASCI Program 2001. Presumed First Edition First printing. Wraps. Very good. 2 viii 84 6 pages. Illustrations most in color. Definitions and URLs. Technology Roadmaps. Figures. The U.S. Department of Energy DOE established the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative ASCI in 1996. The goal of ASCI is to simulate the results of new weapons designs as well as the effects of aging on existing and new designs all in the absence of additional data from underground nuclear tests. This was a daunting challenge and required simulation capabilities that far surpassed those then available. The Advanced Simulation and Computing Program or ASC which grew out of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative 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. One of the Technology Road Maps in this document is for Grid Services. The ASCI Grid Services initially called Distributed Resource Management project was started under DisCom² when distant and distributed computing was identified as a technology critical to the success of the ASCI Program. The goals of the Grid Services project has and continues to be to provide easy consistent access to all the ASCI hardware and software resources across the nuclear weapons complex using computational grid technologies increase the usability of ASCI hardware and software resources by providing interfaces for resource monitoring job submission job monitoring and job control and enable the effective use of high-end computing capability through complex-wide resource scheduling and brokering. In order to increase acceptance of the new technology the goal included providing these services in both the unclassified as well as the classified user's environment. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Defense Programs, ASCI Program paperback
2004réf. 77646Amarillo 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
2017réf. 76194Washington 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
2013réf. 76278Las Vegas: National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Field Office/National Security Technologies Office of Public Affairs 2013. Presumed First thus. DVD-RW. Very good. This contains dozens of photographs from the event in JPG format. There are multiple images in files titled: Day 1 Day 2 Day 2 Part 2 Dinner Dinner 2 Kearsarge GZ NSF Group Photo Steakhouse and U1a-Jasper. 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. This DVD contains photographs taken throughout the two day event. 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 on-site yield measurement of a Soviet nuclear explosion at its then nuclear test site in Kazakhstan and the reciprocal Soviet on-site 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
2013réf. 76282Las Vegas NV: National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Field Office/National Security Technologies Office of Public Affairs 2013. Presumed First thus. DVD-RW. Very good. Set of 6 DVDs. Volume 1 Welcome Ponomarev Paul Robinson Soloshin and Allen; Volume 2 Historic Panel: Aquilina Shubin Wilkes Hawkins; Volume 3 Historic Panel: Dunlop Turnbull Petrov Sandoval Zucca; Volume 4 Future Panel Browne Warner Wallace McDowell Kostyukov Aheleznov Loparev; Volume 5 Shubin and Future Recommendations PanelKickuck Hecker Lehman Hunter; and Volume 6 Voloshin Vic Reis Next Steps Panel: Cook Harrington Gottemoeller Kamenskikh and Document Signing and Conference Close. The United States part of the Joint Verification Experiment carried out in 1988 as the Kearsarge event in Operation Touchstone. Twenty-five years later 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. National Nuclear Security Administration, Nevada Field Office/National Security Technologies, Office of Public Affairs unknown
2013réf. 76281National Nuclear Security Administration 2013. Presumed First thus. CD-RW. Very good. This has one file with 27 powerpoint items on it. In Russian: These appear to 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
2013réf. 76279Las 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
2013réf. 76280National 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
2002réf. 76354Washington 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
2018réf. 75546Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Safety Infrastructure and Operations 2018. Presumed First Edition First printing. Spiral bound. Very good. 58 pages. Illustrations color. Map. Acronyms. Clear plastic sheets at front and back covers. This 2018 Master Asset Plan MAP lays out the National Nuclear Security Administration's NNSA infrastructure vision and highlights strategic investments being made to achieve it. It is an update to the first-ever 2017 MAP which described how NNSA's infrastructure supports it's unique mission requirements and the gaps and mission risks inherent in that infrastructure. Safe reliable and modern infrastructure at NNSA's national laboratories and production plants is absolutely essential to accomplish our vital national security mission and ensure the well-being of our workforce. As the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review states there is no margin for further delay in improving the state of NNSA's infrastructure. Significant and sustained investments will be required during the next quarter century to recapitalize and revitalize the nuclear security enterprise. The Master Asset Plan assembles data into a single report that presents an integrated view of NNSA's infrastructure strategy. National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Safety, Infrastructure, and Operations unknown
2018réf. 75547Washington 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
2007réf. 75574Los Alamos NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory 2007. Concurrence Draft. DVD. Very good. This disk includes the Summary Volume 1 chapters 1-11 Volume 2 Appendices A-M and Volume 3 Comment Response Document. The disk contains 2358 KB. NNSA proposes to continue operating Los Alamos National Laboratory LANL which is located in Los Alamos County in north-central New Mexico. NNSA has identified and assessed three alternatives for continued operation of LANL: 1 No Action 2 Reduced Operations and 3 Expanded Operations. The Expanded Operations Alternative includes the impacts of actions to implement the March 2005 Compliance Order on Consent Consent Order entered into by DOE the LANL management and operating contractor and the State of New Mexico to address the investigation and remediation of environmental contamination at LANL. NNSA intends to implement actions necessary to comply with the Consent Order regardless of whether it implements other actions analyzed as part of the Expanded Operations Alternative. Expanded Operations is NNSA's Preferred Alternative. Under the No Action Alternative NNSA would continue the historical mission support activities conducted at LANL at currently approved operational levels. Under the Reduced Operations Alternative NNSA would eliminate some activities and limit the operations of other activities. Under the Expanded Operations Alternative NNSA would operate LANL at the highest levels of activity currently foreseeable including full implementation of mission assignments. Under all of the alternatives the affected environment is primarily within 50 miles 80 kilometers of LANL. Analyses indicate little difference in the environmental impacts of the alternatives on many resource areas. The primary discriminators are public risk due to radiation exposure collective worker risk due to radiation exposure socioeconomic effects due to LANL employment changes electrical power and water demand waste management and transportation. Los Alamos National Laboratory unknown
2018réf. 75706Washington 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
2004réf. 75764Knoxville TN: U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration 2004. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Hardcover. Very good. Title from front cover. Various paginations approximately 225 pages. Illustrations some with color. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Includes CD on URPR Program Implementation and Task Plans dated January 2007 located inside the front cover. The University Research Program in Robotics URPR Implementation Plan is an integrated group of universities performing fundamental research that addresses broad-based robotics and automation needs of the NNSA Directed Stockpile Work DSW and Campaigns. The URPR mission is to provide improved capabilities of robotics science and engineering to meet the future needs of all weapon systems and other associated NNSA/DOE activities. The participants included University of Florida University of Michigan University of New Mexico University of Tennessee at Knoxville and University of Texas at Austin. This plan describes the purpose goals planning assumptions technical approach risks integration with other programs campaigns and sites and the estimated funding requirements for each year. The URPR mission is to provide improved capabilities of robotics science and engineering to meet the future needs of all weapon systems and other associated NNSA/DOE activities. The IRIS Lab's current areas of research are in scene building scene description and data visualization. The combination of these different fields gives rise to robust usable systems and advanced developments in the underlying technologies. U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration hardcover
2002réf. 75970Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration 2002. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. DVD. Very good. The National Nuclear Security Administration's NNSA nuclear weapons complex NWC has identified developed and deployed successful high-value technologies in support of national security. The production plants testing facilities and national laboratories are a reservoir of technological capabilities unmatched in depth or breadth by any other institution. Cooperation between facilities involves interdisciplinary cross-facility knowledge exchanges at all levels of design and development to build perfectibility into the product. For example the Interplant Technology Team IPTT facilitates technical integration between NWC sites. This team promotes inter-site cooperation by helping to coordinate and focus resources that provide technology solutions. Reporting directly to the IPTT the Network of Senior Scientists and Engineers NSSE comprised of five scientists and engineers from each site meet quarterly to acknowledge and reward scientific excellence and to promote technical cooperation. The NWC is the steward of the Nation's defense nuclear mission-the military application of nuclear energy and the reducing of global danger from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. The ability to address the threat of nuclear biological and chemical attacks and to protect high-value assets has assumed a higher priority. To that end the NNSA focus is on products and technologies that are immediately deployable. We can provide the crucial advantage needed to meet the terrorist threat in all conceivable forms and advance our national knowledge base to maintain the technological edge. This catalog of capabilities highlights those proven field-tested applications for deterrence and for rapid-response. National Nuclear Security Administration unknown
2007réf. 76108Boston MA: Harvard School of Business Publishing Corporation 2007. Presumed First Edition First printing. Magazine. Very good. Quarto approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 168 pages. Color illustrations. Covers has slight wear and soiling. Includes a Harvard Business School Press insert. This issue contains the famous interview with Jeff Bezos entitled The Institutional Yes. It also contains articles on the Business Climate including insights from Michael Porter and Theodore Roosevelt IV Chief Strategy Officer Personalized Medicine a conversation with Rory Stewart and designing markets. Jeffrey Preston Bezos January 12 1964 is an American technology entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder chairman and chief executive officer of Amazon. Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986. He founded Amazon in late 1994. The company began as an online bookstore and has expanded to a variety of products and services including video and audio streaming. Harvard Business Review HBR is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University. HBR is published six times a year. HBR's articles cover a wide range of topics that are relevant to various industries management functions and geographic locations. These focus on areas including leadership organizational change negotiation strategy operations marketing finance and managing people. In the 1980s Theodore Levitt became the editor of Harvard Business Review and changed the magazine to make it more accessible to general audiences. Articles were shortened and the scope of the magazine was expanded to include a wider range of topics. Between 2006 and 2008 HBP went through several reorganizations but finally settled into the three market-facing groups that exist today: Higher Education; Corporate Learning; and Harvard Business Review Group which publishes Harvard Business Review magazine. Harvard School of Business Publishing Corporation unknown
2003réf. 75104U.S. Department of Energy 2003. Presumed First Edition First printing thus--August 2003 Revision to April 2003 version. Spiral bound wraps. Very good. Various paginations approximately 70 pages. Illustrations some with color. Cover has an identifer--03-GA50854. Clear plastic sheets protect front and back covers. Definitions. Acronyms References. Bibliography. Appendices. This report was prepared in response to Recommendations 3 and 3.b page 18 of the report of the Senior Managers task Group on Suspect/Counterfeit Items S/CI. "Resolution of Outstanding Issues Identified from Inspector General Report DOE/IG-0304" June 21 1996. Specifically the intent of this report is to disseminate information regarding Department of Energy DOE S/CI trends analyses and related procurement/quality assurance issues. The DOE complex is provided with general guidance about controlling S/CI and other procurement/quality security issues while DOE management is provided information on progress within the Department relative to these issues. This annual report is an update to the S/CI report issued in 2002 and includes data on the S/CI reported in the Occurrence Reporting and Processing Systems ORPS between January 1 1991 and December 31 2002. The changes to the April 2003 reports are that 1 the ORPS report counts and analyses that have been added to the database from January 1 2002 through December 31 2002 have been included; 2 New information was added regarding other significant activities related to S/CI; and 3 Section 2.3 has been updated to summarize the findings and discussions for the S/CI videoconferences. U.S. Department of Energy paperback
2005réf. 75224Albuquerque NM: National Nuclear Security Administration 2005. Presumed First Edition First issuance thus. CD. Very good. On Hold Shelf. This disk has six files on it: 1. Welcome letter 2. Course Material 3. Self Review 4. Reference Material 5. Software and 6. Read Me. In the course material area there is information of special access programs security policies threat briefing OPSEC overview a Baseline Security Manual and practical exercises. The reference material is indicated as including Executive Orders Presidential Decision Documents Public Laws Director of Central Intelligence Directives 6 DCIDs DoD Manuals DOE policies and other associated materials. In opening the disk there was a reference to SNL so it is assumed that Sandia National Laboratories assisted at least in the production of the CD if not in the development of this training. This CD is marked 'Official Use Only" but previous experience in requesting a determination as to whether the dissemination limitation has almost without exception resulted in silence which we take after a period of time as indicating consent. Special access programs SAPs in the U.S. Federal Government are security protocols that provide highly classified information with safeguards and access restrictions that exceed those for regular classified information. SAPs can range from black projects to routine but especially-sensitive operations such as COMSEC maintenance or Presidential transportation support. In addition to routine controls a SAP may impose more stringent investigative or adjudicative requirements specialized nondisclosure agreements special terminology or markings exclusion from standard contract investigations carve-outs and centralized billet systems. There was no specific organization within the NNSA indicated on the CD that a question on dissemination could be referred to. Since this information is more than a decade old and because multiple requests for status on other Official Use Only materials have been ignored it is assumed that the OUO limitation no long applies. National Nuclear Security Administration unknown
2005réf. 75219Washington 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
2008réf. 75228Washington 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