Military / Defense

National Transportation Safety Board – Aviation Investigation Manual – Major Team Investigations, November 2002

Background NOTE: This manual is a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) staff product and is intended to provide information and…

January 23, 2017

Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs)

Many government agencies use MoUs to define a relationship between departments and agencies. For example, the NSA may have a MOU…

January 19, 2017

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Communication with Senators John McCain and Carl Levin re: Boston Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Background Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaevwas a terrorist who, with his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, planted bombs at the Boston Marathon on April…

December 28, 2016

A Proposal to the War Department for a Radio Control System for Aircraft Type Bomb (Barrage), January 1940

Background Abstract: The proposal herein outlined sets forth the exact method for control of an aircraft bomb, classified as Barrage…

December 28, 2016

Three Volume, 1979 FEMA Study, about the Economic Recovery following a Nuclear Attack

Background This report contains an assessment of the state-of-the-art of modeling and analysis for civil preparedness and management of the…

December 28, 2016

Records on Nuclear Weapons & Attacks

Background A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a…

December 27, 2016

Y2K

Background The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or simply Y2K)…

December 23, 2016

Project Orion – Nuclear Propulsion Concept

Background Project Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of…

December 22, 2016

Civil Defense

Background Civil defense or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state (generally non-combatants) from military…

December 21, 2016

National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Development and Production Manual (D & P)

Background NNSA receives its authority for the responsibility for all weapon and weapon-related functions from 50 USC 2402, Chapter 41.…

December 18, 2016