Sarov: RFNC-VNIIEF, 2007. Three-hole punched Xerox-like copy in English. Disbound in accordion folder. 460 pages. In English. Illustrations (some in color). Sarov is a closed town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It was known as Gorkiy-130 and Arzamas-16, after a (somewhat) nearby town of Arzamas, from 1946 to 1991. Until 1995, it was known as Kremlyov/Kremlev/Kremljov. The town is closed as it is the Russian center for nuclear research. In 1993, the town became a sister city to Los Alamos, New Mexico, the home of the U.S. nuclear weapons design laboratory (Los Alamos National Laboratory, or LANL). Scientists from LANL and VNIIEF have cooperated on various arms control and nuclear safeguards programs, under which the Los Alamos scientists learned, to their amusement, that their Russian colleagues paid homage to their American rivals by irreverently calling their own laboratory "Los Arzamas." It was the first Soviet nuclear weapon development and production center. Initially a KB-11 design bureau was established there, that was developing nuclear weapons. Research and development activities began in 1947. During the same year security forces began to build a perimeter across the closed area. In 1947 the city was removed from all official Soviet maps and statistical documents. The isolation of the area was completed by 1948. The existence of this city was made public and it appeared on the maps only in 1994. This city is a home to two nuclear weapon facilities - design institute and warhead assembly/disassembly facility. Today this city is known as Sarov. It is the main Russian nuclear weapons development and production center. More

New York: PublicAffairs, 2004. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [3], 298, [2] pages. Word Index. Subject Index. Nunberg (linguistics, Stanford U.) does not spend much time on the romance of words or decrying the state of the language, but more often takes language as a jumping off point to see what words can reveal about other things, among them culture, war, politics, symbols, media, business, and technology. Many of the 65 essays began life as articles or radio commentaries. These essays are arranged in the following groups: Culture at Large, War Drums, Politics as Usual, Symbols, Media Words, Business Cycles, Tech Talk, and Watching our Language. Geoffrey Nunberg (June 1, 1945 – August 11, 2020) was an American lexical semantician and author. In 2001 he received the Linguistics, Language, and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistic Society of America for his contributions to National Public Radio's Fresh Air, and he has published a number of popular press books including Going Nucular: Language, Politics and Culture in Controversial Times (2004). Nunberg is primarily known for his public-facing work interpreting linguistic science for lay audiences, though his contributions to linguistic theory are also well regarded. Nunberg received his doctorate from the City University of New York (CUNY) in 1977 for his dissertation, The Pragmatics of Reference. Following his education, Nunberg began working as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California Berkeley and visiting professor at Stanford University. In the mid-1980s he moved to the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center where he worked until 2001. He then returned to academia. More

Newport News, VA: The Mariners' Museum, 1986. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover, with slipcase. Format is approximately 12.125 inches by 9.25 inches, with a slightly larger slipcase. 256 pages. Profusely illustrated with some in color. Minor edge wear to some pages noted. Contents include: Men and Ships, Collis P. Huntington, "A Wonder of the Age", The Dreadnought Era, Homer L. Ferguson, Boom and Bust, The Thirties, Second World War, North Carolina Shipbuilding, Changing of the Guard, The Advent of Nuclear Power, Tenneco: The Turning Point, On the Leading Edge: The Second Century, The Good Ships of Newport News (lists the aircraft carriers, cruisers, submarines and others vessels built there. Tazewell was a descendant of a Virginia governor and senator, was a writer and a teacher of writing. His B.A. and M.A. degrees were from the University of Virginia, with further graduate study in English and history as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, at Ohio State, Indiana and Harvard universities, and at the University of North Carolina as a Mark Ethridge Fellow. In 1959, he joined the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot as a reporter and later served as associate editor. Collis Potter Huntington (October 22, 1821 – August 13, 1900) was an American industrialist and railway magnate. He was one of the Big Four of western railroading (along with Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker) who invested in Theodore Judah's idea to build the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad. Huntington helped lead and develop other major interstate lines, such as the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O), which he was recruited to help complete. More

Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2009. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xiii, [1], 72, [2] pages. Illustrated front cover. Footnotes. Appendices. Foreword by George P Shultz. This work was sponsored by the Hoover Institution and the National Threat Initiative. A typed note is laid in, indicating that this copy was provided on behalf of Dr. Drell. This study's purpose is to stimulate further discussion and analysis, at both the conceptual and practical levels. For purposes of this study, we assume that the end state will be reached through successive stages of nuclear reductions that resemble the following: 1. The United States and Russia reduce to low numbers (200–500) operationally deployed warheads and bombs of all types; France, China, and the United Kingdom accept ceilings at less than 200; and India, Pakistan, and Israel freeze at then-current levels (assumed not to exceed approximately 100). 2. Each nuclear-armed state reduces deployed warheads to zero and non-deployed warheads to no more than 200, after which each nuclear-armed state might reduce the latter category to an interim number of 50–100 apiece. A variant could have a mix of 50–100 operationally deployed or declared reserve warheads retained by each state while all other warheads are eliminated. 3. Finally, each nuclear-armed state reduces warheads to zero while retaining monitored reconstitution capabilities within agreed parameters and for a period of agreed duration. Although those numbers are hypothetical, they provide a framework for examining key security issues that the United States and other nations will face as they approach and enter the end state. More

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1971. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 556, [2] pages. Illustrations (Figures and Tables). Formulae. This is one of the Space Science Text series. Name and date in ink on fep Includes chapters on Celestial Coordinates and Time; Celestial Mechanics; The Earth's Atmosphere; The Other Planets and Their Atmospheres; Airglow; The Aurora; Van Allen Radiation; Planetary Interiors; Planetary Magnetism; Comets, Meteors, and the Interplanetary Medium; Introduction to Stellar Structure; The Evolution of Stars; Cosmic Rays; Radio Astronomy; Exotic Astronomy; and Cosmology. Includes Appendix A The Orbital Elements; Appendix B Orbit Computation and Coordinate Transformation; Appendix C Particle Physics; and Appendix D Electrodynamic Orbit Theory. There is a Bibliography and an Index. Space science encompasses all of the scientific disciplines that involve space exploration and study natural phenomena and physical bodies occurring in outer space, such as space medicine and astrobiology. The author earned his degrees at New York University and then his career steps included: Assistant Professor of Physics, NYU, 1959-1962; Resident Research Appointee, J.P.L., 1962-1964; Assistant Professor of Space Science, Rice University, 1964-1966; Associate Professor of Space Science, Rice University, 1966-1972; Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, 1972-1998; Chief Scientist, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters, 1988-1990; Professor Emeritas, Rice University, 1998-Present. More

New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1925. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [4]. 144 pages. Cover has wear and soiling to boards. Some page soiling noted. Ex-library copy with some of the usual library markings. Pock has been removed from rear board. Some front board weakness, restrengthened with glue. Presentation copy inscribed on the fep. Inscription reads Mr. Francis P. Hensing with the compliments of George Hoyt Smith, Jacksonville, Fl. Xmas 1925. E The contents include: The Palmetto Derby; Eugene, the Eugenic; Behind the Scenes; Peter Van Vort and A Soft-Hearted Pole. More

Washington DC: Center for American Progress, 2017. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 8 inches by 10 inches. [4], 59, [1] pages. Map. Endnotes. Cover has some wear and soiling. Illustrated front cover. Adam Mount, Ph.D. is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Defense Posture Project at the Federation of American Scientists, where his work covers U.S. nuclear strategy and force structure, conventional deterrence, and progressive foreign policy. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2015-16, he directed the CFR Independent Task Force on U.S. Policy Toward North Korea, a group of seventeen experts chaired by Adm. Mike Mullen and Sen. Sam Nunn. He now directs, with Andrea Berger, the FAS International Study Group on North Korea Policy, a group of twelve emerging experts from allied countries working to develop a sustainable strategy to manage a nuclear-armed North Korea. Dr. Mount’s other writing has been published by Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, Survival, Democracy, and other outlets. He is a contributor to Axios Expert Voices. His analysis is regularly cited by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, AFP, AP, and Reuters, and he has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, and CNBC. He has testified before the House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the Department of Government at Georgetown. The author contends that new nuclear weapons are not needed and would be destabilizing. More

New York: EastWest Institute, 2010. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. [4], iv, 12, [4] pages, plus covers. Footnotes. Decorative front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. Contents include a Foreword, Executive Summary, Introduction, Maintaining the Safety, Security, and Reliability of the U.S. Nuclear Stockpile under a CTBT; Detecting Nuclear Tests Under a CTBT, Do New Technological Advances Make CTBT Ratification More Likely?; Conclusion, and Appendix. Jacqueline McLaren Miller was a Senior Associate in the Strategic Trust-Building Initiative at the EastWest Institute, where she ran the U.S. program. Her programmatic work focused on the U.S.-Russia and U.S.-China bilateral relationships as well as nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation issues. Among her publications is the co-edited book Post-Communist Politics and Change in Russia and East/Central Europe (2005). Previously, Jacqueline served as Deputy Director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Washington program. She was assistant director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and assistant director of the highly-regarded Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS). She has also served as an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University. Her honors include being named a Truman Security Fellow (2010) and she was an International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Visiting Scholar in Kyrgyzstan. . Jacqueline has an AB and an MPA from Cornell University and an MPhil from The George Washington University. More

Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1998. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. vi, 100 pages. Illustrations (many in color). Volume 1 ONLY. This is the only one of the 11 volume report that was issued as unclassified. This report highlights the accomplishments of the Enhanced Surveillance Program (ESP), the highest-priority research and development in stockpile management. This is volume one of eleven, the unclassified summary of selected program highlights. These highlights fall into the following focus areas: pits, high explosives, organics, dynamics, diagnostics, systems, secondaries, materials-aging models, non-nuclear components, and surveillance testing systems. Each of these areas were documented in the other individual report volumes. Principal investigators from around the DOE complex contributed to this report. More

La Grange Park, IL: American Nuclear Society Scientific Publications, 2013. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxix, [1], 280, [10] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Signed with sentiment and dated by compiler on the half-title page. Statement reads Nov. 14, 2018 "Everything in the world is done by and through people" HGR Paul; E. Cantonwine. The compiler has 20 years of experience working on nuclear fuel issues from cradle to grave - including the development, licensing and implementation of new fuel technology. With a Ph.D. In Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Virginia, his technical skills are in Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Statistical Data Analysis, Statistical Modeling, and Failure Analysis. Besides his over 25 published papers, Cantonwine published a collection of Admiral Rickover’s essays in the book “The Never-Ending Challenge of Engineering. This book is a practical and philosophical look at the principles used by engineers and leaders from the perspective of Admiral Hyman George Rickover - one of America's greatest engineers. Admiral Rickover is an icon in the history of nuclear power, and one of his greatest contributions was to develop nuclear power technology to meet much higher safety and quality standards than past technological developments. The record of safety in his nuclear navy and in the US commercial nuclear industry is unique in the history of power technology, and thus the thoughts of the man most responsible for how nuclear power technology was developed in the United States should be of interest to all engineers and leaders working in a technical field-especially ones where customer/public safety and quality are paramount. More

Gainesville, FL: University of Florida, 1990. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Comb binding. vi, 75 pages. Clear plastic sheet in front of thesis cover. List of Figures. Abstract. Introduction. Experimental Description. Results. Conclusions, Appendices, and References. This work involved a literature survey, both theoretical and experimental methods and a review of current work. The experiment involved apparatus, procedure, sample description and post exposure analysis. The primary conclusion was that neither UO2 nor ThOs were suitable for use as structural or lining materials in exposure to pure UF4 in either the liquid or gas phase. However the results did prove the applicability of the phase diagram produced by Fonteneau and Lucas to the liquid phase reactions of these compounds, as well as proving the assumption that at the temperatures of interest in this study, corrosive reactions would proceed to equilibrium so rapidly as to make reaction kinetics relatively unimportant. More

Marina del Rey, CA: R & D Associates, 1983. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Comb binding. [2], i, 30 pages. Printed on one side only. Footnotes. Staple at top of front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. RARE surviving copy. This report was referenced in the seminal article (International Security, Fall 1987 (Vol. 12, No. 2) ), A Low Threshold Test Ban by Frank N. von Hippel, Harold A. Feiveson, and Christopher E. Paine. Jack W. Rosengren was responsible for the physics design of the first Polaris warhead and an early Minuteman warhead. Later, he became associate director for nuclear weapons design at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories in California, and then deputy director for science and technology at the Defense Nuclear Agency. In this report he addresses three particular bans proposed for a Freeze, the perishability of nuclear weapons, some past examples of stockpile problems and offers conclusions related to the production of nuclear weapon materials, the production of nuclear weapons, the testing of nuclear weapons, and an overall conclusion. More

Los Alamos, NM: Bathtub Row Press, 2016. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 10.25 inches. DJ has minor edge wear. Volume I: xxviii, 29-540, Volume II: xii, 13-436 pages. Volume I lengthy inscription by the editor. on page facing title page. Short inscription by the editor on title page. Volume II signed and dated by the editor on the title page. Endpaper map and text box. Footnotes. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. References. Inscription in Volume I reads Robert--Thanks for your support and that of your Defense Programs colleagues to allow us to capture this important part of nuclear history. I could not have finished the book without that support. Special thanks for your continued support of international nuclear cooperation. Sig. Foreword by Charles B. Curtis. Includes A Guide to the Reader, Overview, Laying the Foundation for Cooperation, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Materials,US-Russian Lab-to-Lab Nuclear Cooperations Timeline, Nuclear Experts, Science, Stockpile Stewardship and Looking to the Future. This included biographical Information for US and Russian Contributors and a Glossary of Important Acronyms, Terms, and Organizations. Among the contributors were Sig Hecker, Vic Reis, Robert Reinovsky, C. Paul Robinson, George H. Miller, Stephen M. Younger, and Thomas O. Hunter. More