Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1975. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Approximately 8.5 inches by 5.5 inches. 19, [1] pages. Illustrations (photographs and drawings). Cover has some wear and soiling. Inside the front cover is a box of safety reminder for visitors. The Clinton P. Anderson Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF) at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory consists of: (1) a medium-energy, high-intensity linear proton accelerator; (2) experimental areas designed to support a multidisciplined program of research and practical applications; and (3) support facilities for accelerator operations and the experimental program. The high-intensity primary and secondary beams at LAMPF and the varied research program create many interesting and challenging problems for the Health Physics staff. A brief overview of LAMPF is presented. 1974 was its first full year of operation. More

London: The Institute for Strategic Studies, 1970. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. [4], 39, [1] pages. Wraps. Covers and spine scuffed. IISS ephemera laid in. Ink stamp on front cover and title page. This appears to be the inaugural issue. The Introduction states: "Strategic Survey is a new venture which is being added to the short list of regular ISS publications. It will be published henceforth in the spring of each year, and will look back at developments during the preceding calendar year, in strategic policy, doctrine and weapons in the most significant powers and areas, in an attempt to set them in perspective. More

Chicago, IL: Rand McNally & Co., 1958. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Map. Format is approximately 42 inches by 32 inches, printed on one side only. The map has been irregularly folded. In addition to the basic large image there are 9 inset images (relative sizes of planets, expanding universe, asteroids, view of Earth, view of Jupiter, Surface of Venus, Rings of Saturn, Mars and its Canals, and the Volcanic Surface of Mercury) and 3 insets with tabular information (Distance Chart Radar and Radio Communications, Interplanetary Weight Chart, and Space Ship Time Schedule. More

London`: Widow Pratt's Coffee-House, 1719. Second Edition [Reprinted for the Widow]. Presumed First printing thus. Unbound. 24 pages. Approx. 6.5 inches by 8.5 inches This pamphlet has been removed from a volume. While the edges appear to have been cropped, the text is complete. RARE. Pontefract (or Pomfret) Castle is a castle ruin in the town of Pontefract, in West Yorkshire, England. King Richard II is thought to have died there. It was the site of a series of famous sieges during the 17th-century English Civil War. Royalists controlled Pontefract Castle at the start of the English Civil War. The first of three sieges began in December 1644 and continued until the following March when Marmaduke Langdale, 1st Baron Langdale of Holme arrived with Royalist reinforcements and the Parliamentarian army retreated. During the siege, mining and artillery caused damage and the Piper Tower collapsed as a result. The second siege began on 21 March 1645, shortly after the end of the first siege, and the garrison surrendered in July after hearing the news of Charles I's defeat at the Battle of Naseby. Parliament garrisoned the castle until June 1648 when Royalists sneaked into the castle and took control. Pontefract Castle was an important base for the Royalists, and raiding parties harried Parliamentarians in the area. Oliver Cromwell led the final siege of Pontefract Castle in November 1648. Charles I was executed in January, and Pontefract's garrison came to an agreement and Colonel Morrice handed over the castle to Major General John Lambert on 24 March 1649. On 27 March Parliament gave orders that Pontefract Castle should be "totally demolished & levelled to the ground" and materials from the castle would be sold off. It is still possible to visit the castle's 11th-century cellars, which were used to store military equipment during the civil war. More

Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xii, [4], 329, [7] pages. Abbreviations and Acronyms Used in the Text. A Note on Military Unit Names. A Note on Sources. Index. John Prados is an analyst of national security based in Washington, DC. Prados holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and focuses on presidential power, international relations, intelligence and military affairs. He is a senior fellow and project director with the National Security Archive at George Washington University. Prados heads the Archive’s documentation projects for Vietnam and for the CIA, is co-director of the Iraq project, and assists with the Archive’s Afghanistan project. Prados is author of about 20 books, with titles on national security, the American presidency, intelligence, diplomatic and military history, including Iraq, Vietnam, the Soviet Union, and World War II. Prados’s works on Vietnam include The Hidden History of the Vietnam War, a volume examining the lack of “perfect strategies” for the United States in that conflict. More

Washington DC: United States Atomic Energy Commission, Division of Technical Information, 1966. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. [6], iv, 330 pages. Figures. Formulae. Problems. Cover worn and soiled/stained. Writing/marks and stamp on front cover. This is a rare surviving copy of this seminal inaugural nuclear civil engineering graduate level curriculum. Among the instructors for this course were: Gerald Johnson, Wilson Talley, Glenn Werth, Theodore Cherry, David Lombard, Milo Nordyke, Joseph Knox, Stanley Davis, Edward Teller, Ernest Graves, Henry Parker, David Todd, and Willard Libby. Among the topics covered are: Nuclear Fission and Fusion, the Nuclear Explosion, the Physics of Nuclear Energy, Seismic Source, Propagation, and Structures Response, the Contained Nuclear Explosion, Cratering Mechanics, Plowshare Experience with Contained Nuclear Explosives, Plowshare Experience with Cratering, Radionuclides, Radiation, and the Environment, Hazards Evaluation - Venting, Radioactivity, and Air Blast, Hazards Evaluation- Groundwater, Scientific Applications, A Sea-Level Isthmian Canal, Civil Applications - Construction, Civil Applications - Water Resources, Industrial Applications, and The Future Prospects for Nuclear Civil Engineering. This syllabus was a compilation of lecture notes prepared for the first course in Nuclear Civil Engineering given at Stanford University during the Winter Quarter, 1966. The course encompassed the civil engineering aspects of nuclear explosives, based upon the progress achieved by the Plowshare Program of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission in harnessing the tremendous power available from nuclear explosives for peaceful purposes. More

2006. Spiral bound. Various paginations (approximately 110 pages). Tables. Figures. Appendix A through F. Marked Official Use Only but it is understood that with the passage of time, and with the occurrence of subsequent decisions (and the pre-decisional sensitivities associated with this study) that this limitation no longer applies. It is also understood that only a very limited number of copies of this report were likely to have been produced. The cover has small photographs of the Super Block Tritium Facility LLNL, SRS Tritium Facilities, LANL WETF Tritium Facility, and Neutron Generator Facility SNL. In September 2005, NA-10 chartered a study of tritium facilities across the NNSA weapons complex. The scope included manufacturing, R&D, and Storage. The study was chartered to develop options for consolidation of tritium capability and analyze their relative costs and benefits. the study was conducted within a context of the recognition that the future weapons complex must be more consolidated, efficient, and responsive. More

Washington DC: United States Department of Energy, 2000. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Three-hole punched binder. Unpaginated (approximately 50 pages). Marked Official Use Only. Marked "Do not release LANL presentations outside Department of Energy without LANL publication release." Due to the passage of time, changes to the stockpile, advances in technology and materials, and enhancements in the safety of nuclear operations, it is understood that neither limitation continues to apply. This binder has five tabs: 1. DNFSB Issues/Correspondence, 2. Area Office, 3. LANL (Official Use Only), 4. Authorization Basis., and 5. Fire Protection. Items 2 through 5 are vugraph presentations. As noted in a 2014 GAO report (GAO 14-449) the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee disassembles canned subassemblies (CSA)—a major nuclear component that can contain highly enriched uranium (HEU), which is uranium enriched in the isotope uranium-235 to 20 percent or greater. NNSA is retaining many CSAs, leaving far fewer of them for disassembly, and creating challenges for Y-12’s ability to plan its disassembly workload. However, NNSA bases its retention decisions on national security considerations and not Y-12 workload. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is an independent agency of the United States government based in Washington, D.C. Established in 1988, the DNFSB oversees the nuclear weapons complex administered by the U.S. Department of Energy. The DNFSB is independent of the Department of Energy. The DNFSB's most important power is its ability to give recommendations to the Secretary of Energy. More

Minneapolis, MN: Blue Book Publications, Inc., 1994. Fourteenth Edition. Trade paperback. 1216 pages. Glossary. Illustrations. Abbreviations. References. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Tear as bottom back corner. This book is the result of nonstop and continual firearms research obtained by attending gun shows and by communicating with gun dealers and collectors throughout the country each year. This book represents an analysis of prices for which collectible firearms have actually been selling for during that period at an average retail level. Although every reasonable effort has been made to compile an accurate and reliable guide, gun prices may vary significantly depending on such factors as the locality of the sale, the number of sales that were considered, and economic conditions. This edition includes a revised "Photo Percentage Grading System," that will enable collectors to accurately ascertain the condition of most firearms. Editions that are superseded retain significant reference value. They provide a baseline against with later changes can be identified and their impact assessed. They also provide a boundary against which changes from earlier versions that occur in that edition can also be identified and assessed. More

Washington DC: U. S. Army, Center for Military History, 1983. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xviii, [2], 391, [5] pages. Trade Paperback. Illustrations. Maps (with some color). Footnotes. Table. Charts. Bibliographical note. Index. Slight wear to cover and edges. Minor corner ding to the top of some pages. Ronald Harvey Spector (born January 17, 1943) is a military historian, who contributes to scholarly journals and also teaches history. He has been a Professor at the George Washington University. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served in the Vietnam War, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the reserves. He was a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military history and taught at the University of Alabama. He was tasked to prepare a study of the Grenada operation. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University, and later gained a Ph.D from Yale University. Spector was a Senior Fulbright scholar in India from 1977 to 1978. He has taught at the National War College, the University of Alabama, and the U.S. Army War College. He has been on the faculty of The George Washington University in Washington, DC. More

London, England: Cassell, 2002. First Edition, Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. 352 pages. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Contains black and white maps on pages 233-235, as well as 17 appendices between pages 238 and 308. Contains chapters on Philippine Waters; Origins, early Years and Arms Races; The First World War; The Inter-War Period: Limitation, Reconstruction and the New; The Second World War, 1939-1945; and The Last Goodbye. H. P. Willmott is a widely published military historian, a former senior lecturer in the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and a former senior research fellow with the Institute for the Study of War and Society at De Montfort University. He has been a visiting lecturer with the University of Greenwich and the Royal Norwegian Air Force Academy at Trondheim. More

New York City: The Mayor's Committee of New York City, 1897. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 195, ix pages. Illustrations. Introduction and Bibliography. Index. Some pages uncut. Compliments of Wm. Gaston Hamilton, Chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Public Baths and Public Comfort Stations note is affixed to the front free endpaper. Topics covered include The Mayor's Committee on Public Baths and Public Comfort Stations; Bath Legislation Regarding New York City Since 1800; Public Baths of New York; Swimming Clubs and the Swimming Bath as a Means of Recreation; The Spray Bath and Spray Baths in the Public Schools; Municipal Baths in America; Municipal System of Foreign Baths; The Administration of European Baths; Public Laundries; Public Comfort Stations; Recommendations of the Mayor's Committee; and Bibliography. Includes 45 black and white illustrations of baths and public comfort stations. William Gaston Hamilton was born 15 September 1832 in Manhattan, New York, United States to John Church Hamilton (1792-1882) and Maria Elizabeth Van den Heuvel (1795-1873) and died 23 January 1913 in Manhattan, New York, United States of unspecified causes. He married Helen Maria Pierson (1834-1893) 19 March 1862 in Manhattan, New York, United States. He married Charlotte Ross Jeffrey (1841-1904) 18 April 1895 in Washington, D.C., More

New York, N.Y. St. Martin's Press, July 2010. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. 254 pages. Signed and Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads: Tom--To a real energy leader. Thanks for all you do to help us power America. Hope you enjoy the Read. Spencer Abraham. Includes Acknowledgments, Preface, Introduction, Conclusion, Bibliography, and Index. Chapters include Energy Myths and Facts; Threats to Our Energy and Environmental Security; Why We Have Failed to Address Our Energy Security Threats; and The Road Ahead. Edward Spencer Abraham (born June 12, 1952) is an American attorney, author and politician who was a United States Senator from Michigan from 1995 to 2001 and the tenth United States Secretary of Energy, serving under President George W. Bush, from 2001 to 2005. Abraham, a Republican, is one of the founders of the Federalist Society and a co-founder of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. To date, Abraham is the last Republican to serve as a U.S. Senator from Michigan. Abraham was elected to represent Michigan in the United States Senate in 1994, and he served until 2001 when he was defeated for reelection to the Senate in 2000 for a second term by Debbie Stabenow. According to the New York Times, State Republicans attributed his loss to "scathing advertisements by a wide range of special interest groups, including advertisements that criticized Mr. Abraham's support for a relaxation of some immigration restrictions". In 1996, when President Clinton endorsed Congresswoman Barbara Jordan's proposed cuts to legal immigration Senator Abraham played a leading role in blocking the proposed cuts. More