Military / Defense

Military Intervention in Civil Disturbances

Background The following documents have been released regarding how the military can "help" during certain civilian disturbances. Operation Garden Plot…

July 18, 2017

The Evolution of Warfare, the Laws of War, and the Ethical Implications of U.S. Detainee Policy in the Global War on Terror and Beyond, June 2006

Background Extract from the thesis: The atrocities committed by American GIs at Abu Ghraib shocked the collective moral conscience of…

July 11, 2017

Threat Assessment and Security Plan for the Attorney General, Undated circa early 2001

Background Although controversial due to the fact it was paid for by tax payers, Attorney General John Ashcroft used to…

July 3, 2017

Naval Concepts of Chemical and Biological Warfare – A Department of Defense Motion Picture Film (1952)

Background Naval Concepts of Chemical and Biological Warfare - A Department of Defense Motion Picture Film (1952). This declassified Naval…

June 30, 2017

Electron Beam Systems in Space, June 1977

Background According to the document: The "Electro-ring" concept of using electron rings in space for energy storage originated with the…

June 23, 2017

Proposal Nuclear Radiation Effects on Materials at Cryogenic Temperatures, July 1959

Background The background to how this Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request played out is the most interesting part of…

June 22, 2017

Report on Test of Bombs, Chemical, 100-LB, T6E1, Lots E-3685-127 and E-3685-128, December 15, 1939

Background This document (without a title when I learned of it) appears in the DTIC Classified Document list. It was…

June 21, 2017

Explosion of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Building 236, July 18, 2015

Background On July 23, 2015, CBS News published the following: An explosion inside a federal laboratory in Maryland appears to…

June 13, 2017

FBI Atlanta Intelligence Note from Domain Management: Terrorism and Counterintelligence Threat, September 8, 2009

Background I found reference to the following document, having been released due to an ACLU FOIA lawsuit in 2011. Since…

June 11, 2017

CONTINUOUSLY CIRCULATING FISSIOCHEMICAL PROCESS DEVELOPMENT APPLICABLE TO HYDRAZINE SYNTHESIS. VOLUME 1: PROGRAM SURVEY, PROCESSING, AND MATERIALS

Background The primary goal of this program was to design, develop, construct and operate a continuous in-reactor hydrazine production loop…

June 7, 2017