New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc., 1946. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover, cloth cover. 224 pages. Decorative cover. Illustrated endpapers. Color frontispiece. Illustrations. Index. Wise and Company promotional postcard still affixed after page 224. Pages slightly darkened, boards & spine somewhat scuffed & faded. Task Force One (TF 1) was organized on 11 January 1946. It followed the basic principles employed during World War II to develop amphibious task forces, but incorporated needs of the scientific program. The joint task force staff comprised Army, Navy, and civilian scientific personnel. This joint staff maintained liaison with the War and Navy Departments, the Manhattan Engineer District, and other government agencies. Commander Joint Task Force 1 [CJTF 1] maintained liaison with two boards of special interest, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Evaluation Board and the President's Evaluation Commission. The Evaluation Board was to advise CJTF 1 during preparation for the tests and evaluate test results. The Evaluation Commission was to cooperate with the War and Navy Departments in conducting the tests, and to undertake a study of the tests and to submit its observations to the President along with findings, conclusions, and recommendations. JTF 1 was subdivided into eight task groups, each of which performed some specific function. Task Group 1.1 (Technical Group); Task Group 1.2 (Target Vessel Group); Task Group 1.3 (Transport Group); Task Group 1.4 (Army Ground Group); Task Group 1.5 (Army Air Group); Task Group 1.6 (Navy Air Group); Task Group 1.7 (Destroyer Surface Patrol Group); and Task Group 1.8 (Service Group). More

Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories, 2002. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xviii, 262 pages. Inscribed by the author and dated on fep. Minor corner bumps and dings to cover. Minor marks and soiling at the bottom edge. Abbreviations & Acronyms. Illustrations (some in color). References. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Charles Loeber spent over 40 years in the Nuclear Weapons Complex (NWC), which includes 18 years with the Department of Energy (DOE) as a Program Manager, and 10 years with Sandia National Labs. In 1991, as the Cold War was ending, Charles was asked to manage the DOE's Nonnuclear Reconfiguration Program where he was responsible for closing sites that brought the NWC to its current size. Charles retired from the DOE in 1994 and then joined Sandia where he helped establish their neutron generator production capability. He is a past-President of the National Atomic Museum Foundation. He also served as the Project Manager to build the new National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, which opened in 2009. In 1998 he began to capture this story in writing. He finished this manuscript in 2001 and donated it to Sandia as a public service. In 2002, Sandia decided to publish this work and make it available for training at the Lab. They also made it available to the public. More

Washington DC: United States Army, c1975. Presumed First Edition, First issuance thus. Clears plastic/vinyl sheet with printing on one side only. Overall dimensions: 40 inches long by 23½ inches wide. RARE surviving copy of this map overlay. This has been folded and refolded. There has been some transfer of printing to otherwise clear portions of the plastic sheet. Information is presented in red, purple, orange, yellow, blue and black colors. Scale is 1:250,000 kilometers and 1 to 50,000 kilometers. Show yields of 2kt, 5kt, 30kt, 100kt, 300kt and 1MT. On the right side is a yield scale for 150kt to 1 MT. To its left is another scale, in KM from 4 to 1000 with a designation of DWD at the top. Further to its left is a smaller scale in KM from 8 to 160 with the designation of EWS at the top. The ABC-M5A2 radiological fallout predictor is a transparent device used to outline the zones of hazard resulting from surface bursts for preselected yield groups. The ABC-M5A2 fallout predictor is composed of two simplified predictors and a nomogram for determining the downwind distance of Zone I. One simplified predictor is drawn to a scale of 1: 50,000; the other predictor is drawn to a scale of 1: 250,000. This predictor contains six preselected yield groups (A, B, C, D, E and F). All you need to know to use this is: Wind speed and direction, location of ground zero and actual (or estimated with your ABC-M4A1) yield of the nuclear weapon. This overlay is used for surface or low air burst weapons. More

London: Odhams Press Limited, 1956. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hard cover. 208 pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Foreword by Commander W. L. King. DJ, in a plastic sleeve attached to boards, has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Some page discoloration noted. Slightly cocked. Contents include Introduction; "Report to Fort Blockhouse"; War Declared; First Patrol; The sea and the enemy; We Penetrate Oslo Fjord; Away Boarding Part!;' Mediterranean-bound; I Join Truant; Torpedoes and gun; The Beacon; Five days in Cairo; Across the Western Ocean; Trapped!; Truant heads Eastward Ho!; H.M. Submarine Thrasher; Two V.C.s for Thrasher; You'll never live to spend it!"; Medway's last voyage; Homeward bound; The George Cross Island; Reflections; Back to General Service; The other side of the Picture; and Postscript. This book has also been described as the Wartime Adventures of a Submarine Stoker. Never for a second does the author relax his grip on the imagination as he recalls the cool audacity of surface gun actions against enemy convoys on the high seas; Sydney Hart has written a worthy monument to the British submariner's simple devotion to duty. His book may well rank as a classic of its kind. More

Cape Canaveral, Florida: United States Postal Service, 1962. Presumed one of multiple originals issued, uniquely signed. Envelope. Format is approximately 6.5 inches by 3.75 inches. This was issued in Cape Canaveral, Florida on February 20 1962 at 3:30 p.m. This is signed by J H Glenn Jr. on the upper left corner. This envelope may be unique and it certainly is RARE, in that is does not have the graphic and text in color on the left side showing Astronaut Glenn in his space helmet and the Mercury-Atlas rocket lifting off with day of launch and first day of issue text. The left side is unadorned (that is blank). John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a U. S. Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. After retiring from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio. Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, and Korean War. He shot down three MiG-15s, and was awarded six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen Air Medals. In 1957, he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the United States. He was one of the Mercury Seven, military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the nation's first astronauts. He received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1962, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. Aged 77, Glenn flew on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95 mission, making him the oldest person to enter Earth orbit, and the only person to fly in both the Mercury and the Space Shuttle programs. More

Stamford, Connecticut: The Overbrook Press, 1941. Limited Edition, one of only 350 copies printed. Hardcover. [8], 54, [6] pages. Frontispiece. Minor wear and soiling noted. Contents include The Chautauqua Period, An Address by Arthur E. Bestor President of the Chautauqua Institution; The Chicago Period, an Address by James R. Angell President Emeritus of Yale University; The Minnesota Period, An address by Guy Stanton Ford, President of the University of Minnesota; The Rockefeller Foundation Period, an Address by John D. Rockefeller, Jr; A Tribute by Wallace Notestein, Sterling Professor of English History, Yale University and My Dean by Harry Hansen, Book Reviewer of the New York World-Telegram. The Rockefeller Foundation is the second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America, after the Carnegie Corporation, the foundation's impact on philanthropy in general has been profound. It has supported United Nations programs throughout its history, such as the recent First Global Forum On Human Development, organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1999. The early institutions it set up have served as models for current organizations: the UN's World Health Organization, set up in 1948, is modeled on the International Health Division; the U.S. Government's National Science Foundation (1950) on its approach in support of research, scholarships and institutional development; and the National Institute of Health (1950) imitated its longstanding medical programs. More

New York: The Free Press, 1987. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xiv, 257, [1] pages. Includes A Personal Note About War. Notes. Index. Signed by the author on the fep. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Edward Teller (January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" (see the Teller–Ulam design). Born in Hungary in 1908, Teller emigrated to the United States in the 1930s. He made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy (in particular the Jahn–Teller and Renner–Teller effects), and surface physics. In 1953, along with Nicholas Metropolis, Arianna Rosenbluth, Marshall Rosenbluth, and his wife Augusta Teller, Teller co-authored a paper that is a standard starting point for the applications of the Monte Carlo method to statistical mechanics. Teller was an early member of the Manhattan Project, charged with developing the first atomic bomb. He co-founded the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and was both its director and associate director for many years. Teller continued to find support from the U.S. government and military research establishment, particularly for his advocacy for nuclear energy development, a strong nuclear arsenal, and a vigorous nuclear testing program. Teller became especially known for his advocacy of technological solutions to both military and civilian problems, including a plan to excavate an artificial harbor using thermonuclear explosive in what was called Project Chariot, and the Strategic Defense Initiative. Teller was a recipient of numerous awards, including the Enrico Fermi Award and Albert Einstein Award. More

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 296 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Gerald Edward "Jerry" Miller (July 1, 1919 – November 6, 2014) was a vice admiral in the United States Navy. He was a commander of the United States Sixth Fleet (from October 1971 – June 1973). He graduated in 1942 from the United States Naval Academy. With the Cold War turning frigid in the late 1950s, Jerry was promoted to Captain, the first in his class to make that rank, and reported to the Pentagon. Assigned to the Atomic Operations Division, Captain Miller had the awesome responsibility of helping organize nuclear war plans. He became an expert in nuclear weaponry and and its employment as a naval weapon delivered by naval aircraft. He commanded USS Wrangell and USS Franklin Roosevelt, and in 1968, commanded Carrier Division Three in Vietnam. Promoted to Vice Admiral in 1970, Jerry commanded the Second and Sixth Fleets, before retiring from active duty in 1974. Admiral Miller retired with flight experience in more than 60 types of aircraft during World War II, Korea and Vietnam. More

Team Sports America [a subsidiary of Evergreen Enterprises of Virginia, LLC.], 2006. Presumed to be one of multiple originals. Tangible. Approximately 9.25 inches long, 6.5 inches tall, and approximately 4 inches at its widest part. Label on back says TSA/MLBP 2006. This was plugged in and the lights illuminated. There are no instructions present with it. There appear to be instructions for comparable items accessible on the internet and possibly from Team Sports America. Another one of these was found offered on eBay at $69.99 plus shipping but availability could not be confirmed at time of cataloguing. More

This may be a unique, one-of-a-kind creation. Wood figure. Maximum width, without arms extended is approximately 6 inches. Height is approximately 17.25 inches. Torso is approximately .75 inches and including arms is approximately 1.5 inches. With cap brim the width is approximately 2.5 inches. The back is plain wood and hardware, The front is painted with Yankee pinstripes. There is a glove on the left hand and a ball (white with red seams) in the right hand (moveable, at one time appears to have been glued in place). The arms are moveable. There is no indication of the artist/sculptor/woodworked who produced this or when or where it was produced. No hook or other attachment on the back but room to put one there for hanging or other display purposes. More

Arlington, TX: Aerofax, Inc., 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.25 inches. 232 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Diagrams. Notes. Tabular Data. Index. Includes Preface, Foreword, A Note About Sources. Acknowledgments. Weapon Physics. Postwar U.S. Fission Weapons Development. Thermonuclear Weapons Development, 1942-1982. Weapons Types: Development & Delivery Systems. Arming & Fuzing: Techniques & Equipment. Chuck Hansen (May 13, 1947 - March 26, 2003) was the compiler, over a period of 30 years, of the world's largest private collection of unclassified documents on how America developed atomic and thermonuclear weapons. Hansen's documents were obtained through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and since his death have been housed at the National Security Archive at George Washington University. In 1988, Hansen wrote the book U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History, which, along with great detail about the process of developing, testing and administering atomic weapons was critical of the U.S. Defense Department, the Atomic Energy Commission, and some other government agencies. In the book Hansen reported that the early years of nuclear testing were less successful than claimed; bombs failed, or yielded smaller or larger explosions than anticipated or announced, and attempts to develop a radioactivity-free bomb were unsuccessful. U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History is currently out of print. More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 1958. First [U.S.] Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 192 pages. DJ, worn, torn, chipped and soiled is in a plastic sleeve. Gift inscription, not from author, on fep. Part 1, Before; Part Two, Snapper; Part Three---Trusty; Part Four--In Between; Part Five--Telemachus; and Part Six--After. Commander William Donald Aelian King, DSO & Bar, DSC (23 June 1910 – 21 September 2012) was a British naval officer and author. He was the oldest participant in the first solo non-stop, around-the-world yacht race, the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, and the only person to command a British submarine on both the first and last days of World War II. King went to the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth. He was first assigned to the battleship Resolution, and later became commanding officer of the submarine Snapper. He served on three separate vessels in World War II, and was promoted to commander and awarded seven medals during the war, including the DSO on 9 May 1940 for "daring, endurance and resource in the conduct of hazardous and successful operations in His Majesty's Submarines against the enemy", and the Distinguished Service Cross on 6 September 1940 "for bravery and determination during arduous and successful patrols in H.M. Submarines" both whilst in command of Snapper. A bar was added to his DSO on 16 January 1945 "For outstanding courage, skill and determination in one of H.M. Submarines in successful patrols in Far Eastern waters" (specifically the sinking of I-166). King succeeded in a singlehanded circumnavigation in 1973 on his third attempt. At the time of his death, he was the oldest surviving World War II submarine commander. More

Colorado Springs, CO: Shelton Enterprise, Inc., 1988. First Edition [stated]. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. This book has become extremely rare. Format is approximately 9 inches by 11 inches. Various paginations (approximately 2.5 inches thick). Indexes. References. Appendices. Signed by the author on the title page. Illustrations/Figures. Footnotes. Frank H. Shelton graduated from Caltech with a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics. As a nuclear physicist, he was employed at the Sandia Corporation in New Mexico and was involved in nuclear weapons tests in Nevada and the Pacific. Frank was the Deputy Technical Director for the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project at the Pentagon. He was a Defense Department atomic expert and was responsible for developing military requirements for atomic weapons and for conducting atomic tests. In Colorado Springs, he was Vice President and Chief Scientist for Kaman Sciences. He was also a consultant for ITT. In 1997, he was awarded the Life Time Achievement Award from the Defense Special Weapons Agency. He was a WWII Veteran. He authored numerous books pertaining to nuclear weapons. The chapters in this memoir are: Manhattan Project, Operation Crossroads, Operation Sandstone, Operation Greenhouse, Operation Ivy, Operation Castle, Operation Redwing, Operation Plumbbob, Operation Hardtack, Testing Moratorium, A Return To Testing, and The Limited Test Ban Treaty. More