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1971réf. 72114Washington DC: GPO 1971. Wraps. Good. 352 pages wraps quarto illus. a few in color tables charts footnotes chapter references small 1/2" tear at front top hinge slight wear and soiling to covers The Biosatellite Program was the first serious U.S. attempt to design a spaceflight system tailored to the needs of biologic experimentation and Biosatellite II was the first successfully completed mission. Topics covered include experiments with invertebrates experiments with plants and experiments with cellular systems. GPO paperback
1943réf. 62754Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office 1943. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. vi 90 p. Includes illustrations. 78th Congress 1st Session. House Document No. 248. The rationing activities of the Office grew during this reporting period. Rationing and price control were essential parts of the broad stabilization program. Price controls assured stability in the value of incomes; rationing provided access to a share of the good in short supply because of the demands of wartime. This report contains charts and a wealth of information by commodity groups and other groupings. These documents have becoming increasingly scarce in the secondhand scholarly and collector communities. United States Government Printing Office paperback
1943réf. 62753Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office 1943. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. Cover has some wear and soiling. v 26 p. Includes illustrations. 78th Congress 1st Session. House Document No. 54. This was Leon Henderson's last report. He addressed briefly the initial and at times seemingly insuperable difficulties confronted. He recognized individual hardships but asserted that these were being held to a minimum. This report contains charts and a wealth of information by commodity groups and other groupings. These documents have becoming increasingly scarce in the secondhand scholarly and collector communities. United States Government Printing Office paperback
1995réf. 67850Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1995. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Tabs folced. Includes illustrations. Approximately 200 pages. Contains the two-day agenda and presentations from the first day Sessions 1 and 2. Occasional footnotes. This appears to be the first volume of a two volume proceedings of a NASA sponsored conference held in Washington DC. National Aeronautics and Space Administration paperback
1942réf. 62752Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office 1942. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. viii 255 p. Includes illustrations. 77th Congress 2d Session. House Document No. 891. This report covers a very difficult period in the development of price control a period inaugurated with the issuance by the Office of the General Manimum Price Regulation and accompanying rent orders the first move in the President's anti-inflation progra. These measures were taken in the expectation that thedirect control of the cost of living thereby established would be reinforced by the control of the basic inflationary forces as contemplated in the President's program. However during this period the inflationary pressures continued to build up. This report contains numerous charts and a wealth of information by commodity groups and other groupings. These documents have becoming increasingly scarce in the secondhand scholarly and collector communities. United States Government Printing Office paperback
réf. 61771Washington DC; Boca Raton FL: National Archives Trust Fund Board; Social Issues Resources Series Inc. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Slipcase has been damaged but the contents are in good condition. vii 79 p. Includes illustrations. Glossary. Annotated bibliography. Time Line. In addition to the 86 page booklet there are a series of f54 acsimile documents all present provided for classroom use. This is the fourth in a special series to make National Archives records available to the public in appropriate forms in part through the work of its Office of Educational Programs in producing a series of supplementary tearching units. National Archives Trust Fund Board; Social Issues Resources Series, Inc hardcover
1961réf. 63449Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1961. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Somewhat worn and soiled. Edge tear at front. Stain at last page. Small hole at bottom of last page. ii 121 p. Includes illustrations. Folding charts. This is an extremely scarce Richard Helms/Central Intelligence Agency item. This was sworn testimony before the Congressional subcommittee. U.S. Government Printing Office paperback
2005réf. 69058Washington DC: National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Defense Programs 2005. Presumed first edition/first printing. Very good. Includes illustrations. CD-ROM In 2005 the Nation's nuclear weapons enterprise put forth a vision for evolving the program and its design and production facilities and the underlying technologies and infrastructure for the coming quarter century. This CD-ROM contains information on this vision. From the NNSA website: "The NNSA was established by Congress in 2000 as a separately organized agency within the U.S. Department of Energy responsible for the management and security of the nation s nuclear weapons nuclear nonproliferation and naval reactor programs. In 2002 NNSA reorganized removing a layer of management by eliminating its regional operations offices in New Mexico California and Nevada. Contract and project management oversight responsibility for NNSA s labs plants and special facilities was given to the site offices. NNSA headquarters retained responsibility for strategic and program planning budgeting and oversight of research development and nonproliferation activities. NNSA is responsible for the management and security of the nation s nuclear weapons nuclear nonproliferation and naval reactor programs. It also responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the United States and abroad. Additionally NNSA federal agents provide safe and secure transportation of nuclear weapons and components and special nuclear materials along with other missions supporting the national security. NNSA relies on contractors to manage day-to-day site operations and to adhere to Department of Energy policies when operating the laboratories production plants and other facilities within the complex. Together the facilities implement NNSA s all-encompassing Stockpile Stewardship program that includes operations associated with surveillance assessment maintenance refurbishment manufacture and dismantlement of the nuclear weapons stockpile as well as research and development and certification efforts." National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Programs unknown
1943réf. 62745Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office 1943. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. Ink note on front cover. iii 67 p. Includes illustrations. 78th Congress 1st Session. House Document No. 358. This report addresses price control rationing rent control and enforcement. These documents have becoming increasingly scarce in the secondhand scholarly and collector communities. United States Government Printing Office paperback
1943réf. 62746Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office 1943. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Cover nearly separated barely connected at staple. Cover has some soiling. iii 65 p. 78th Congress 1st Session House Document No 302. Includes a statistical summary. United States Government Printing Office paperback
1987réf. 65212Washington DC 1987. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Staple bound. Slight wear and soiling. xii 91 p. Includes: illustrations diagrams maps. Distribution Category UC-90. This document was released for printing on February 19 1987. This report presents an analysis of both actual fuel substitution in 1984 and potential fuel substitution in the manufacturing sector. This analysis is based on the 1984 Dun & Bradstreet Major Industrial Plant Database MIPD. This report also provides a summary of the MIPD at both the national and Census region level and compares the Dun and Bradstreet data to other available data sources. paperback
2009réf. 67232Moffett FIeld CA: United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2009. Reprint. Second Printing. Wraps. Very good. Includes: illustrations diagrams. Various paginations approximately 125 pages. References. From Wikipedia: "The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy SOFIA is a joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center DLR to construct and maintain an airborne observatory. NASA awarded the contract for the development of the aircraft operation of the observatory and management of the American part of the project to the Universities Space Research Association USRA in 1996. The DSI Deutsches SOFIA Institut manages the German parts of the project which are primarily science and telescope related. SOFIA's telescope saw first light on May 26 2010. SOFIA is the successor to the Kuiper Airborne Observatory.SOFIA is based on a Boeing 747SP wide-body aircraft that has been modified to include a large door in the aft fuselage that can be opened in flight to allow a 2.5 meter diameter reflecting telescope access to the sky. This telescope is designed for infrared astronomy observations in the stratosphere at altitudes of about 41 000 feet about 12 km. SOFIA's flight capability allows it to rise above almost all of the water vapor in the Earth's atmosphere which blocks some infrared wavelengths from reaching the ground. At the aircraft's cruising altitude 85% of the full infrared range will be available. The aircraft can also travel to almost any point on the Earth's surface allowing observation from the northern and southern hemispheres. Once ready for use the expectation is for observing flights to be flown 3 or 4 nights a week for the next 20 years. SOFIA is now based at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility at LA/Palmdale Regional Airport California while staff at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View California operate the SOFIA Science Center where astronomical observation missions are planned for the flying observatory. The NASA logo reflected in SOFIAs 2.5-meter primary mirror. SOFIA uses a 2.5-meter reflector telescope which has an oversized 2.7 meter diameter primary mirror as is common with most large infrared telescopes. The optical system uses a Cassegrain reflector design with a parabolic primary mirror and a remotely configurable hyperbolic secondary. In order to fit the telescope into the fuselage the primary is shaped to an f-number as low as 1.3 while the resulting optical layout has an f-number of 19.7. A flat tertiary dichroic mirror is used to deflect the infrared part of the beam to the Nasmyth focus where it can be analyzed. An optical mirror located behind the tertiary mirror is used for a camera guidance system. The telescope looks out of a large door in the side of the fuselage near the airplane's tail and will initially carry nine instruments for infrared astronomy at wavelengths from 1 655 micrometres and high-speed optical astronomy at wavelengths from 0.3 1.1 micrometres. The main instruments are the FLITECAM a near infrared camera covering 1 5 micrometres; FORCAST covering the mid-infrared range of 5 40 micrometres and HAWC which spans the far infrared in the range 42 210 micrometres. The other four instruments include an optical photometer and infrared spectrometers with various spectral ranges. SOFIA s telescope is by far the largest ever to be placed in an aircraft. For each mission one interchangeable science instrument will be attached to the telescope. Two groups of general purpose instruments are available. In addition an investigator can also design and build a special purpose instrument. On April 17 2012 two upgrades to HAWC were selected by NASA to increase the field of view with new detector arrays and to add the capability of measuring the polarization of dust emission from celestial sources. The open cavity housing the telescope will be exposed to high-speed turbulent winds. In addition the vibrations and motions of the aircraft introduce observing difficulties. The telescope was designed to be very lightweight with a honeycomb shape milled into the back of the mirror and polymer composite material used for the telescope. United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration paperback
2009réf. 67242Washington DC: United States Department of Energy 2009. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. Cover has slight wear and soiling. xii 159 12 p. Includes illustrations. Some illustrations in color. References. This publication was prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC05-76RL01830 by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory reprot number PNNL-19379. From Wikipedia: "Exascale computing refers to computing systems capable of at least one exaFLOPS. Such capacity represents a thousandfold increase over the first petascale computer that came into operation in 2008. One exaflop is a thousand petaflops or a quintillion 1018 floating point operations per second. At a supercomputing conference in 2009 Computerworld projected exascale implementation by 2018. In January 2012 Intel purchased the InfiniBand product line from QLogic for US $125 million in order to fulfill its promise of developing exascale technology by 2018. The initiative has been endorsed by two US agencies: the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration. The technology would be useful in various computation-intensive research areas including basic research engineering earth science biology materials science energy issues and national security. The United States has put aside $126 million for exascale computing beginning in 2012. Three projects aiming at developing technologies and software for exascale computing have been started in 2011 within the European Union. The CRESTA project Collaborative Research into Exascale Systemware Tools and Applications the DEEP project Dynamical ExaScale Entry Platform and the project Mont-Blanc. The Indian Government has committed USD 2 Billion to ISRO and Indian Institute of Science IISc Bangalore to develop a supercomputer with a performance of 132.8 exaflops by 2017. ISRO has already booked key equipment to develop the first Indian exaflop supercomputer. Most of the sub-systems will be developed in India." United States, Department of Energy paperback
1962réf. 63828United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1962. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. Includes illustrations. Unpaginated 40 pages plus covers United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration paperback
1976réf. 61567Washington DC: Energy Research and Development Administration 1976. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Wraps. Good. Includes: illustrations diagrams. Glossary ERDA-97 ix 105 p. ERDA-97A 19p; ERDA 97-C various paginations approximately 100 p. ERDA-97 D v 35 p. . No dust jacket as issued. Pencil erasures on the front of ERDA-97A. Cover has some wear and soiling. This report reflects data available to the Study Staff as of January 2 1976. It should also be noted that out-year projections FY 1978-81 for specific sites and/or programs are not commitments and will be subject to the Administration's annual budget reviews in subsequent years. ERDA-97B is a classified document and not present. This report describes and discusses alternatives for managing and funding the military application and Restricted Data functions in ERDA. It was prepared in response to Section 307b of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. Energy Research and Development Administration paperback
2003réf. 59621Washington DC: U. S. Department of Energy 2003. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket. Removed from shrinkwrap for cataloguins. Includes a "Dear Interested Party" distribution letter. 3 volume set. 3 volume set. Includes: illustrations maps. Various paginations. Includes a Summary 57 pages and 2 volumes. Volume I approximately 700 pages; Volume II approximately 200 pages. DOE/EIS-236-S2. The National Nuclear Security Administration is responsible for the safety and reliability of the U. S. nuclear weapons stockpile including production readiness required to maintain that stockpile. This document addresses issues associated with constructing a new facility for the manufacturing of a key nuclear weapon component. This proposed facility proved to be controversial and did not recieve Congressional support and funding. However it retains significant value as a source of unclassified information about the use of plutonium and associated plutonium operations in the United States nuclear weapon program. U. S. Department of Energy paperback
2002réf. 68511Washington DC: United States Department of Energy 2002. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Includes: illustrations diagrams index. 2 volumes. Volume 1 Chapters 1 throught 11 approximately 350 pages; Volume 2 Appendices A through K approximately 200 pages. Various paginations. References. Glossary. TA-18 supported important defense nuclear safety and other national security mission responsibilities. The operations at TA-18 enabled DOE personnel to gain knowledge and expertise in advanced nuclear technologies that supported: nuclear materials management criticality safety; emergency response in support of counterterrorism activities nuclear safeguards arms control; and criticality experiments. Technical Area 18 housed at the time the Western Hemisphere's largest collection of machines for conducting nuclear safety evaluations. Under the right conditions at Techncial Area 18 usingfissile material experiments capable of maintaining a self-sustaining nuclear fission chain reaction had been achieved. As part of the national response to the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks the Department of Energy proposed to relocate the Technical Area 18 operational capabilities and materals to a new location. This environmental impact statement was part of that process. United States Department of Energy paperback
1975réf. 67447Washington DC: United States Energy Research and Development Administration 1975. DRAFT-not to be reproduced with permission of the study director. Spiralbound. Good. Number 48 written in ink on front cover. Number stamped on front cover. Numerous paperclip marks. vi 92 vii p. Includes illustrations. This is copy #48. Offical Use Only marking lined out on front cover. This type of controlled copy draft report is typically destroyed as the report is finalized. Thus copies such as this are increasingly scarce and offer potentially significant insights as to policy issues and their resolution through comparison with the text of the officially approved and released report. This report describes and descussed alternatives for discharging the responsibility for managing and funding military application and Restricted Data functions now in ERDA It was prepared in response to Section 307 b of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974. Chapter I describes the requirement for the study. Chapter II discussed the nuclear weapons complex and weapon program including facilities management and costs and the non-weapon activities conducted by the complex. These are the major elements of the weapon-related functions then under consideration for transfer. Chapter III identified major concers suggesting a need for change or restraint against change. Chapter IV descrived the nonweapon defense=related function of ERDA including naval reactors production of special nuclear materials space reactors and other military reactors and considerations concerning their potential transfer. The study described in this report was conducted by and ERDAS task force consisting of representatives from ERDA headquarters and field operations offices the weapon laboratories the production facilities and others not directly associated with ERDA. Collaboratoion was maintained with the Department of Defense throught the office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy. From an official history of the ERDA by Alice Buck: "The Reorganization Act of 1974 required the Administrator of ERDA and the Secretary of Defense to review the feasibility of transferring the military functions formerly vested in the Atomic Energy Commission to the Department of Defense or to other federal agencies. The possible transfer of these functions which included not only weapon development and the control of Restricted Data but also certain nondefense related programs such as naval reactors space nuclear systems military power reactors and the production of special nuclear materials reflected continuing congressional concern over the issue of civilian control of the military atom. In January 1976 following a year of study Seamans concluded that a split in the management and funding responsibilities between different agencies would be detrimental to a strong nuclear weapons program. He recommended instead that the nuclear weapon program and complex be retained within ERDA but have a budget of its own separate from the budget for energy programs. The Assistant Administrator for National Security would be responsible for seeing that the weapon program received priority in the use of laboratories and production facilities while nonweapon defense-related programs would be under the direction of the Assistant Administrator for Nuclear Energy. The unique capability of the weapon research laboratories to perform significant nonnuclear research in the energy development field was another factor in the final decision to leave the division of military application and the associated nuclear activities within the Energy Research and Development Administration." United States, Energy Research and Development Administration unknown
1976réf. 59736Energy Research and Development Administration 1976. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket. Cover has some wear and soiling. 2 volume set. Includes illustrations. Various paginations approximately three inches combined in the two volumes. ERDA-1542. This Environmental Statement has been prepared by the Energy Research and Development Administration as the lead agency with the collaboration of the Department of State which was primarily concerned with the portions of the Statement involving foreign policy considerations; the Nuclear Regulatory Commission which was primarily concerned with the portions of the Statement involving export licensing activities; and the Export-Import Bank which was primarily concerned with the portions of the Statement involving export financing. Energy Research and Development Administration paperback
1994réf. 68541Washington DC: United States Department of Energy Energy Information Administration 1994. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket. Covers have slight wear and soiling. 2 volume set. xiii 91 v159 p. Includes illustrations. Glossary. From an EPA website: "Reformulated gasoline RFG is gasoline blended to burn more clearly than conventional gasoline and to reduce smog-forming and toxic pollutants in the air we breathe. The RFG program was mandated by Congress in the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments. The first phase of the RFG program began in 1995 and the second current phase began in 2000. RFG is required in cities with high smog levels and is optional elsewhere. RFG is currently used in 17 states and the District of Columbia. About 30 percent of gasoline sold in the U.S. is reformulated. The air quality benefits RFG has achieved represent a significant part of the country's smog reduction strategy. The RFG program combined with other industrial and transportation controls aimed at smog reduction is contributing to the long-term downward trend in U.S. smog levels. About 75 million people breathe cleaner air because of RFG." United States Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration paperback
2003réf. 64937Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2003. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Sticker with ISBN barcode on fep. xii 2 817-1637 18 15 and 9 pages. Illustrations color. Indexes. Contains public messages and statements of the President of the United States released by the White House from June 30 to December 31 2001. This volume contains the materials related to the September 11 2001 attacks and the actions taken by the United States shortly thereafter. U.S. Government Printing Office hardcover
2000réf. 63238Washington DC: United States Department of Energy 2000. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. xvi 20 2 2 p. Acronyms; Secretary of Energy Richardson summarized the results of a late 1999 review as "The principal finding of the review is that stockpile stewardship works both in terms of specific science surveillance and production accomplishments and in terms of developing a program management structure that integrates the span of program activities. United States Department of Energy paperback
2005réf. 64938Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2005. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. xii 2 1153-2275 16 18 and 9 p. Illustrations. Indexes. Contains public messages and statements of the President of the United States released by the White House from July 1 to December 31 2002. U.S. Government Printing Office hardcover
réf. 13069Washington DC: GPO n.d. very good. 8" x 10" 1 photo 1 color photograph of Jack R. Lousma Shuttle commander and Charles G. Fullerton Shuttle pilot signed by Fullerton GPO unknown
1976réf. 52825Place_Pub: Washington DC: ERDA 1976. good. Approx. 150 wraps illus. glossary references staple holes in front cover covers somewhat worn/soiled small tear at top of spine. Date time stamp on rear cover distribution memo laid in. ERDA-1546. This final environmental statement has been prepared in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act to support the Energy Research and Development Administration project to design and construct positron-electron colliding beam storage ring PEP facilities at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center SLAC at Stanford University in Stanford San Mateo County California. ERDA paperback