Washington, DC: Panel to Assess Reliability, 2002. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. quarto, 30 pages, wraps, footnotes, figures, appendix. Subtitled: FY2001 Report to Congress of the Panel to Assess the Reliability, Safety, and Security of the United States Nuclear Stockpile. This report focussed on a narrow question: is there a technical issue that necessitates a return to nuclear testing? In order to meet the growing technical challenges of stockpile stewardship, the Panel recommended that Presidential guidance be revised to require a balanced and complete assessment of the stockpile, the nuclear weapons complex that supports it, and the alternative options available for sustaining confidence. More

Arlington, VA: Institute for Defense Analyses, Program Analysis Division, 1974. DTIC reprint--Approved for Public Release. Wraps. Approximately 95 pages. The IDA Ground-Air Model I (IDAGAM I) is a deterministic fully-automated, theater-level model of non-nuclear combat between two opposing forces. The report consists of five volumes, as follows: (1) Comprehensive Description, (2) Definitions of Variables, (3) Detailed Description of Selected Portions, (4) Documentation, and (5) Testing (U) ( SECRET). The Definition of Variables contains two sections: I. Program, Overlays and Subroutines, and II. Definition of Variables. The definition of all the variables used in IDAGAM I are contained in this volume which is, in a sense, a dictionary for the IDAGAM I computer program. This volume serves two purposes: First, someone interested in either an extremely detailed knowledge of all of IDAGAM I or a review of parts of IDAGAM I can, with the assistance of this volume, read the detailed description. Second, this volume serves as a dictionary-type reference for prepared in input and reading outputs of IDAGAM I. More

Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, 1956. Reprint. Wraps. This is a reprint from Volume 103, pages 2-6. Color illustrations. References. Stamps and notations on front cover. Minor edge wear on front page. Minor edge tears. James Barrett Brown, MD, (1899-1971) was chairman of Plastic Surgery as the Washington University Medical School in St. Louis from 1955 until 1968. At Washington University, Dr. James Barrett Brown helped introduce the revolutionary concept of using large skin grafts for the treatment of severe burns and described how to make the grafts work. Later, Brown assembled a large team of plastic surgeons to treat wounded veterans returning from World War II, which led to the development of new techniques and strengthened the role of plastic surgeons in reconstruction. The work reported in this article was done in part under the auspices of the Atomic Energy Commission. More

Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories, 1988. 161, wraps This document was prepared for the Office of Classification & Technology Policy, Defense Programs, U.S. Department of Energy. More

New York: Osprey Publishing, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7.75 inches by 9.75 inches. 216 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Includes Preface and Acknowledgments, Chronology, Notes and Sources, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters include The Pre-Atomic Age; Developing the Bomb, 1939-1945; Little Boy and Fat Man; Delivering the Bomb; Hiroshima; Nagasaki; Reaction and Response; Operation Crossroads: The Bikini Tests; Nuclear Proliferation and Deterrence; and Legacies of the Bomb. James Preston Delgado, Ph.D. (born January 11, 1958) is a maritime archaeologist, historian, maritime preservation expert, author, television host, and explorer. Delgado is a maritime archaeologist who has spent over four decades in underwater exploration. A veteran of over 100 shipwreck investigations around the world, his work has included the wrecks of RMS Titanic, USS Independence (CVL-22), USS Conestoga (AT-54),, USS Monitor, USS Arizona (BB-39), USS Nevada (BB-36), Sub Marine Explorer, the buried Gold Rush ships of San Francisco, the atomic bomb test fleet at Bikini Atoll, the slave ship Clotilda, and Khubilai Khan's lost fleet. Dr. Delgado's long career has included heading a major maritime museum, leading both the National Park Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s maritime heritage programs. He is the author of over 200 academic articles, and more than 33 books. Named a Fellow of the Explorers Club in 1997, Delgado is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and an Officer in Spain's Order of Civil Merit. More

New York: Pantheon Books, c1989. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 243. More

Washington DC: United States Army, Center Of Military History, 1993. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xii, 237, [3] pages. Illustrations. Appendixes {Chronology, Glossary, Dictionary of People, Places, and Terms]. Typo on page xii. Announcement of Publication, 4 pages, folded in half and stapled at the upper left corner, printed on one side laid in. A printed "A Book for Review" card, printed on one side, laid in. Cover has wear around the edges. Corners of some early pages slightly bent. Some ink marks and notations present on verso only. Much of the intelligence obtained by the United States during World War II came from intercepting and deciphering the most secret communications of adversaries. Now, much of the story can at last be told. Book includes 16 pages of added pictures plus a complete added personality index of all names mentioned in the text. For forty years, James L. Gilbert served as the military historian responsible for documenting the role played by intelligence in peacetime and war. He is credited with directing the publication of a series of official histories that traced the development of military intelligence. John Patrick Finnegan graduated magna cum laude from Boston College in 1957. After a period of employment with the National Security Agency and military service in the U.S, Army Counter Intelligence Corps, he received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Finnegan taught at several American universities and worked as a military historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History. He is the author of Against the Specter of a Dragon: The Campaign Army Lineage Series: Military Intelligence for American Military Preparedness, 1914-1917. More

New York: Atheneum, 1969 [c1968]. First Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 363, map, footnotes, index, underlining to approx. first 25 pages of text, edges soiled, DJ repaired with tape. More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 269, illus. with 16 pages of plates, references, appendices, index. More

New York: The Free Press; A Division of Macmillan, Inc., 1992. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. viii, 214 p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Book Club Edition. 399, illus., maps, index, DJ scuffed and worn along top and bottom edges. More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Book Club Edition. 399, illus., maps, index, DJ scuffed and worn along top and bottom edges. More