Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1985. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 48 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. This is in effect a marketing brochure in support of Laboratory recruitment efforts. The Foreword states, in part, "For those of us who live and work here, Los Alamos is a place of challenge and discovery in a setting of great natural beauty. We welcome you to Los Alamos. The primary responsibility of the Laboratory is assuring the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. The people of Los Alamos continually work on advanced technologies to provide the United States with the best scientific and engineering solutions to many of the nation's most crucial challenges. Los Alamos today has a heightened focus on safety and security, with its core values of intellectual freedom, scientific excellence, and national service. Its research programs support the Laboratory's mission of maintaining the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent without the need to return to underground testing. More about Welcome to Los Alamos; LALP-85-9

Oak Ridge, TN: Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc., 1996. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Spiral bound. Spiral bound, tabbed. Various paginations (approximately 1.5 inches of material). Illustrations. Marked Official Use Only, which is understood to being no longer applicable due to the passage of time. The tabbed sections are: Overview, Core Stockpile Management, Resumption, Core Competency, Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, Core Stockpile Stewardship, Stockpile Readiness, Adapt, Technology Transfer. One of NNSA’s core missions is to ensure the United States maintains a safe, secure, and reliable nuclear stockpile through the application of unparalleled science, technology, engineering, and manufacturing. Defense Programs carries out NNSA’s mission to maintain and modernize the nuclear stockpile through the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program. Details about nuclear weapons, deterrence, and management of the stockpile can be found in the Nuclear Matters Handbook and the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan. More about Y-12 Defense Programs FY 1998 Budget Review, May 2, 1996; Presented to Thomas P. Seitz, Deputy...

Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1989. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 8 pages (including covers). Illustrations. This is an overview, originally treated as Official Use Only, of the participation of LANL in the Intelligence Community (IC) as an extension of DOE's responsibilities under Section 1.13 of Executive Order (EO) 12333, United States Intelligence Activities. The International Technology (IT) Division had been designated by the Laboratory Director as the focal point for all intelligence-related and foreign-technology activities within LANL. In this capacity, IT Division was considered an element of the IC and was exempt from contractor status under Director of Central Intelligence Directive 1.7. The purpose of this brochure was to advise IC element so the wide range of LANL's expert technical, analytical and research capabilities that could have application in solving intelligence-related problems. The Laboratory has provided technical support to the IC as far back as 1943 when its scientists assessed the status of Third Reich's nuclear weapons research. More about International Technology Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory; IT (OUO)-89-325

Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1986. Reprint. Wraps. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 10.75 inches. 60 pages plus covers. Wraps. Illustrations. Some wear and soiling to covers. White cover with Fireball. Sticker on title page. A fascinating glimpse into the past of Los Alamos, New Mexico and the assembly of the world’s first nuclear device. Many photographs support the story, which begins in 1943 when the government chose the Pajarito Plateau as an important site for the Manhattan Project. This is the story of one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time. It is the story of the founding of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and its successful secret mission to create the first atomic bomb, the weapon that ended World War II. Part One, Starting Point, Military and Scientific Realities of 1943: Military considerations had government (make) the decision, by 1943, that an atomic bomb was desirable, as a means for bringing World War II to an end. Scientific considerations had governed the decision that an atomic bomb was feasible. More about Los Alamos: Beginning of an Era, 1943-1945; LASL-79-78 Reprint, IS-1-61-84

New York: Abrams Press, 2019. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. vi, 618 pages. Illustrations. References and Notes. Index. Some highlighting noted. Eric Peter Kaufmann (born 11 May 1970) is a Canadian professor of politics at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is a specialist on Orangeism in Northern Ireland, nationalism, political demography and demography of the religious/irreligious. He received his BA from the University of Western Ontario in 1991. He received his MA from the London School of Economics in 1994 where he subsequently also completed his Ph.D. in 1998. Kaufmann was lecturer in comparative politics at the University of Southampton from 1999 to 2003. He was a fellow at the Belfer Center, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, for 2008–09. Kaufmann joined Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2003. He became professor of politics there in 2011. More about White Shift; Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1992. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xx, 347, [1] pages. Foreword by Mrs. Sadako Ogata. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Judith Ann Mayotte (born January 25, 1937) is an American humanitarian, author, theologian, producer, former Catholic religious sister, ethicist, and university professor. In 1976 earned a doctorate in theology at Marquette University. In 1982 she joined Turner Broadcasting as Senior Researcher and a producer for the Emmy and Peabody Award winning documentary series Portrait of America. In 1985 she won an Emmy for writing and producing the "Washington" segment of the series. It was during this time that Mayotte found herself drawn, inexplicably, she says, to refugee work. Mayotte applied for and received a grant from the MacArthur Foundation to write a book about refugees. In 1989, at age 51, she embarked on two years of living alone in Eritrea, Sudan, Pakistan, Thailand, and Cambodia. Her book, Disposable People? The Plight of Refugees, was published in 1992. More about Disposable People?; The Plight of Refugees

New York: The ECCO Press (An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers), 2000. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [6], 279, [3] pages. Illustrations (color). DJ has slight sticker residue at back. S. L. PRICE, a Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated since 1994, has written several books—including Pitching Around Fidel, Playing Through The Whistle: Steel, Football and an American Town, a biography of Aliquippa, Pa. Of Price’s work, the New York Times said, “The seasoned reporter … is a master of the new journalism developed by Hunter Thompson, Gay Talese and Price’s personal paragon, Pete Hamill. Whenever he writes about sports–or about the craft of writing–he hits it over the fence.” Along with his more than three dozen cover stories for SI, Price has also written for Vanity Fair, the New York Times, TIME, and The Oxford American. He has covered ten Olympic Games, two World Cups, interviewed Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and played Barack Obama one-on-one in an Iowa YMCA. More about Pitching Around Fidel; A Journey into the Heart of Cuban Sports

Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1992. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, 360 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Statistics. Inscribed by the author on fep. Price clipped. John B. Holway (1929- ) has been researching baseball since 1944. Few may boast of as long and noteworthy a contribution to baseball research. Looking at baseball beyond America's major leagues, he wrote the first book in English on Japanese baseball. Since then he has published many notable books on the Negro Leagues, most notably perhaps Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues (1975), a collection of interviews with the then virtually unknown Cool Papa Bell, Buck Leonard, Bill Foster, Willie Wells, and The Complete Book of the Negro Leagues (2000). Holway saw his first Negro League game in Washington, DC in 1945. He has also researched intently and written frequently about Ted Williams, whom he saw strike two home runs in the 1946 All-Star Game. Holway has received SABR’s Bob Davids Award and the Casey Award for Blackball Stars, voted the best baseball book of 1988. More about The Last .400 Hitter; The Anatomy of a .400 Season

New York: Sports Illustrated Books (an imprint of Time Home Entertainment Inc.), 2014. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [10], 341, [1] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Selected Bibliography. Index. Kostya Kennedy is an American sportswriter. He is the author of 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports--named “the best baseball book to appear in many a season,” by Roger Kahn. And Pete Rose: An American Dilemma, described this way by the novelist Richard Ford: “Like the best writing about sport--Liebling, Angell--it qualifies as stirring literature.” For both books, Kennedy earned the Casey Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year. Each was a New York Times Bestseller. The Rose book and other pieces and appearances by Kennedy, including a 2014 New York Times Op-Ed piece, have played a significant role in the renewed discussion about Rose’s eligibility for the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Kennedy is a contributing editor at Sports Illustrated, where he has reported, written and edited, most recently as an assistant managing editor, since 1994. He is an expert on baseball. More about Pete Rose; An American Dilemma

Lake Suzy, FL: EMP America (A Subsidiary of EMP Solutions, and Renewable Energy Creations, LLC), 2013. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Periodical. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 12 pages (including covers). Illustrations (most in color). Cover has slight wear and soiling. Mailing label removed from rear cover. This is stated as an Annex to the 5 Volume EMP Series. This was intended to be a quarterly publication. Scarce, ephemeral item. Among the Featured Topics are: EMP Protection Optimization, A National EMP Protection Program, Shielded Power Panels for Survivalist, New EMP Protection Journal, Silicone vs. Thin Film Solar Panels. This is one example of an increasing population of periodicals and single publications related to the EMP threat and how individuals, as well as organizations and governments, can respond and provides some information on steps and technology options available in the commercial marketplace. More about EMP Protect Civilization; A Combined EMP, EMC & Solar-PV Industry Mission, Vol. 1, Num. 3,...

[Fort Bliss, TX?]: United States Army Nuclear Agency [Presumed], c1975. Xerox reproduction. Staplebound. Unpaginated (40 pages). Maps. Illustrations. Pencil erasure residue on front page. One vugraph has a date of 1975. Rare surviving copy of an ephemeral training briefing. This is mostly a vugraph presentation but has 4 pages of text entitled Corps Commander's Tactical Nuclear Operations Concept (two words blacked out, one word made plural, and one word replaced in ink) followed by four maps. The last page is "x" out and is a page from the Corps Commander's Nuclear Planning Guidance. The Operation's Concept includes the maps and the text references the line Arschenroder (NB1639)-Schluctern (NA3777). Also addressed as the line Bebra (NB5646)-Premich (NA7472), at Bad Hersfeld (NB5035), and the line Bebra (NB5646) - Fulda (NB4800). Also addressed are the line Aschenroder (NB1639) - Alsfeld (NB1822)- Lauterbach (NB2808) - Hauswurz (NA3490) - Schluctern (NA3777). Further discussed are the Hunfeld (NB5313) -Schlitz (NB3914) axis. More about How To Nuc'Em

White Sands Missile Range, NM: Department of Defense, Joint Test and Evaluation Directorate, c1985. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 17 single-sided pages. Date of 29 Jul 29, 85 stamped on front cover. Staplebound. Cover has some wear and soiling. THis bibliography includes test reports, analysis reports, technical memorandums and Letter Reports, Papers, and Pamphlets. Organizations having distribution authority are identified. Both classified and unclassified documents are listed. Reports included have dates from the early 1970s to mid 1980s. The Center for Countermeasures apprears to be the successor to the Joint Test and Evaluation Directorate and makes recommendations for improvements to system developers and decision-makers as well as to the OSD. These activities and recommendations contribute greatly to the production of robust ASE and CM-hardened U.S. weapons systems and the improved capabilities necessary for these systems to function effectively in the increasingly hostile environments found on the modern asymmetrical battlefield. More about Electro-Optical Guided Weapons CM/CCM; Bibliography

Hawthorne, CA: Northrop Corporation, Northrop Research and Technology Center, High Power Laser Program Office, 1975. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. v, [1], I105, [1] pages. Tables. Figures. Ink correction to report number on title page. Staplebound. Number stamped on front cover. Ink mark on front cover. Minor discoloration on title page where there was an open section to show the report title. Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American global aerospace and defense technology company formed by Northrop's 1994 purchase of Grumman. The company was the fourth-largest arms trader in the world in 2017 with about 84% of all revenue coming from defense related activities. Northrop Grumman is made up of four main business sectors: Aerospace Systems, Mission Systems, Technology Services and Innovation Systems. It also ranks in the top ten military-friendly employers and top 50 companies for diversity. Northrop Grumman and its industry partners have won the Collier Trophy eight times, most recently for developing the Northrop Grumman X-47B which is the first unmanned, autonomous air system operating from an aircraft carrier. More about High Power CO Laser Application Study - Scaling Laws for the Propagation of Loosely Focused,...