''Fallout Chic''

The result of a research contract awarded to Rice University, Department of Architecture by the US Civil Defense agency. Five architects designed fallout shelters for industrial buildings. 

Industrial Architecture : Fallout Shelters (1963)

https://archive.org/details/industrialarchit00lacyrich

''What's THIS button for?''

''Declassified nuclear weapons employment manuals from the Cold War.''

Nuclear weapons employment manuals 

https://archive.org/details/NuclearWeaponsEmploymentManuals

''I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines''

''The book begins with researches in robot modelling & design, in which different approaches in kinematical, dynamical and other design issues of mobile robots are discussed. Modelling is a first step in designing a new system; kinematics is the most basic study of how mechanical systems behave. In mobile robotics, we need to understand the mechanical behaviour of the robot both in order to design appropriate robots for tasks and to understand how to create control software for an instance of mobile robot hardware. This chapter presents different researches in design of various robot systems.''

Cutting Edge Robotics (2005)

https://archive.org/details/ost-engineering-cutting-edge-robotics

''Fear of Frying''

Published in 2006, some thirty years after the last Apollo mission-
''The primary threat to astronauts from space radiation is high-energy charged particles, such as electrons, protons, alpha and heavier particles, originating from galactic cosmic radiation (GCR), solar particle events (SPEs) and trapped radiation belts in Earth orbit. There is also the added threat of secondary neutrons generated as the space radiation interacts with atmosphere, soil and structural materials.[1] For Lunar exploration missions, the habitats and transfer vehicles are expected to provide shielding from standard background radiation. Unfortunately, the Lunar Extravehicular Activity (EVA) suit is not expected to afford such shielding.'' 
Oh well.

Active Solid State Dosimetry for Lunar EVA, NASA 2006

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_20060013413

''Spam in a can''

The problem of prolonged, autonomous human existence in a space suit

(USSR, 1966)

''The authors consider the feasibility of maintaining the thermal balance of a cosmonaut in a space suit utilizing only physiological perspiration. Two series of tests were conducted in a thermal pressure chamber to determine the degree of intensity of physiological heat control and the performance capacity and the general condition of an organism. On the basis of the experiments it is asserted that for a period of 3 to 4 hours a man in a space suit is able to dissipate by the evaporation of perspiration 200-220 kcal/hr of heat produced either internally or externally. Thermal load is decreased, the duration a man can withstand such condition is greatly increased.''

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19670017246

''In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied...''

''If we are to discuss the limitations of simulation, we must define what simulation is. The literature in the field is of limited usefulness in tying down exactly what the term describes. The more recent the document, the more likely it is that the author will quote several alternate definitions, reject them all and proceed to develop his own definition which is more general and less restricting than any of those given. The use of the term "simulation" seems to outgrow even the broadest definition. I will not attempt a precise definition, but as an alternate will suggest that the history of the development of simulation as we know it today may be a less rigorous, but more satisfying way to describe simulation. The origins of simulation are generally traced to the work of Von Neuman and Ulman in the late 1940's. They coined the term "Monte Carlo Analysis" to describe a technique whereby essentially deterministic problems, too expensive or complex to solve analytically, could be solved by treating them as stochastic problems.''

The trend in simulation (Computers and Automation- January 1968, page 44)

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_computersA_9729690

''Terminate, with extreme prejudice''

''SAIGON. - In a nondescript white concrete-block building on the outskirts of this capital city, an International Business Machines Corp. Model 1430 computer runs 24 hours a day grinding out one of this war-torn country's most valuable products: Military intelligence. The building houses one of four intelligence centers scattered around Saigon. Using automatic data processing equipment, this intelligence setup - the biggest operated by the United States outside Washington and the biggest ever used against a single enemy - is now handling a massive assortment of facts and figures aimed at winning the Vietnam war. More than 100,000 separate items are being added to the system's computerized files each month; a 60-ton haul of enemy documents seized last January is still yielding valuable information. Tens of thousands of IBM punch cards help keep tabs on the foe; they bear detailed identification of captured Communists and Vietcong suspects.''

COMPUTERIZED INTELLIGENCE NETWORK IN SOUTH VIETNAM 
Computers and Automation 1967/08 page 34

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_computersA_7199056

''Slouching towards Bethlehem''

''In presenting this paper at Bletchley Park, there is a unique opportunity to provide an assessment of the extent and limits of the electronic innovations associated with the ENIAC project (Project PX) at the University of Pennsylvania. While it is well known that John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert and other ENIAC project engineers made several basic contributions to electronic computing, this history has been grossly simplified in broad-level historical accounts. Getting a device with over 17,000 vacuum tubes to operate in an unfamiliar digital domain required a wide array of innovations. By looking at the diverse forms of knowledge embedded in the scientific and engineering practices of those who found themselves at the Moore School, it is possible to document more fully the synthesis of ideas that was coterminous with the invention of the ENIAC.''

The Circulation of Knowledge and the Origins of the ENIAC: (Or, What Was and Was Not Innovative About the American Wartime Project) Atsushi Akera 

http://ethw.org/images/b/be/Akera.pdf

''Like a thief in the night''

''Special reconnaissance (SR) is defined as reconnaissance and surveillance actions conducted by Special Forces (SF) to obtain or verify, by visual observation or other collection methods, information concerning the capabilities, intentions, and activities of an actual or potential enemy or to secure data concerning the meteorologic, hydrographic, geographic, or demographic characteristics of a particular area. It includes target acquisition, area assessment, and poststrike reconnaissance.''

FM 31-20-5 Special Forces Reconnaissance Tactics,Techniques,& Procedures (1990)

https://archive.org/details/milmanual-fm-31-20-5-special-reconnaissance-tactics-techniques--proced

''Virtual vertigo''

''This Thesis was aimed at studying the effects of time delay in the visual feedback loop of a man-machine system. A one-dimensional, step-type input, pursuit tracking experiment was developed to study these effects with transmission-type delays of zero to ten seconds. Thirty-six subjects participated in a series of tests that covered: seven different delays, two different levels of course complexity for each delay, learning, and open-loop conditions. It was found that tracking performance deteriorates non-linearly with increases in delay and that the magnitude of this performance degradation is a function of course complexity.'' 

Effects of time delay in the visual feedback loop of a human-machine system (1966)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19660025923

''Far out, dudes!''

''In August 1997, NASA sponsored a 3-day workshop to assess the prospects emerging from physics that may eventually lead to creating propulsion breakthroughs -the kind of breakthroughs that could revolutionize space flight and enable human voyages to other star systems. Experiments and theories    were discussed regarding the coupling of gravity and electromagnetism, vacuum fluctuation energy, warp drives and wormholes, and superluminal quantum tunneling.''

NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Workshop Proceedings (1999)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19990023204

''Is there any escape from noise?''

''BASIC CONCEPTS AND QUESTIONS ABOUT NOISE, WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO A PROPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHARACTERISTIC OF INDUSTRIAL NOISE AS WELL AS AN EXPERIMENTAL ACOUSTICAL COMPLEX FOR THE STUDY OF THE NOISE FACTOR, ARE EXAMINED. SPECIAL ATTENTION HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE EFFECT OF NOISE ON THE ORGAN OF HEARING. IMPORTANT DATA PERTAIN TO PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCH, INCLUDING THE QUESTIONS OF ADAPTATION AND FATIGUE. CHANGES IN OCCUPATIONAL HEARING LOSSES, CAUSED BY THE PROLONGED EFFECT OF NOISE, ARE DISCUSSED. DATA ARE GIVEN ON THE EFFECT OF AN ACOUSTIC STIMULUS ON THE EYE, MOTOR ANALYZE, ON VIBRATION SENSITIVITY AND THE FUNCTIONAL STATE OF THE VESTIBULAR ANALYZE, INVOLUNTARY FUNCTIONS, AND THE CARDIO-VASCULAR SYSTEM. DATA ABOUT THE EFFECT OF NOISE ON THE FUNCTIONAL STATE OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM ARE PRESENTED. IT IS CONCLUDED THAT BOTH REACTIVITY AND LABILITY OF THE CORTEX AND SUBCORTICAL STRUCTURES ARE REDUCED, EVIDENTLY IN PROPORTION TO THE NOISE EFFECT. THE DEGREE OF THESE EFFECTS IS DETERMINED BY THE FORCE OF THE NOISE.''

Noise and noise sickness (U.S.S.R., 1973)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19730019203

''A nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there"

''Problems such as space motion sickness, redistribution of body fluids, and cardiovascular deconditioning are of concern in short-duration space shuttle flights. The expanded participation of nonastronaut crewmembers or payload specialists in these flights increases the life scientists' interest in the space shuttle flights. Problems such as loss of skeletal mass, decreased red blood cell production, and numerous endocrine changes are of more concern on long-duration flights. The Life Sciences Program is therefore concerned with a wide variety of problems that range from the applied to the basic. The common thread is biology; the context is space.''

Physiological factors in space operations-Emphasis on space shuttle (NASA,1979)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19800006424

"There goes the neighborhood''

''Transient non-linear dynamics calculations are carried out to investigate the interactions between a warhead and four different urban targets under different engagement distances and obliquity angles. The results of the calculations are used to guide the design and the development of a smart warhead-fuze which is capable of discriminating between hard targets (e.g. triple-layer brick wall, a light-weight vehicle), soft targets (e.g. an earth and timber bunker), and an urban target (a light-clad domestic building). Robustness of the present approach has been investigated using a statistical sensitivity analysis.''

Smart-fuze Design and Development Based on Computational Analysis of Warhead/Urban-target Interactions (Grujicic/Bell, 2013)

https://archive.org/details/RAME022

 ''Whose Shoulder are You Looking Over Anyway?''

Document leaked to the press in 2012 outlining the N.S.A.signal intelligence program.

1. "Revolutionize analysis – fundamentally shift our analytic approach from a production to a discovery bias, enriched by innovative customer/partner engagement, radically increasing operational impact across all mission domains."
2. "Fully leverage internal and external NSA partnerships to collaboratively discover targets, find their vulnerabilities, and overcome their network/communication defenses."
3. "Dynamically integrate endpoint, midpoint, industrial-enabled, and cryptanalytic capabilities to reach previously inaccessible targets in support of exploitation, cyber defense, and cyber operations."

SIGINT Strategy Document (N.S.A. 2012)

https://archive.org/details/NSA-SIGINT-Strategy

''The science of control''

                                  ''The most fundamental concept in cybernetics is that of “difference”,

                                   either that two things are recognisably different or that one thing

                                   has changed with time''

An introduction to Cybernetics (William R, Ashby,1956)

https://archive.org/details/introductiontocy00ashb

''With friends like these...''

''The main argument of the thesis is that the use of the California National Guard (CNG) in response to major emergencies has both advantages and disadvantages as a model for countries in transition, such as Ukraine. Furthermore, it argues that civil- military relations in domestic support operations (DSO) are a very important factor to consider when new democracies try to build an effective system of emergency management. The author attempts to explain why the civil authorities, specifically in the United States, request military involvement in domestic emergencies while remaining suspicious about military involvement in domestic affairs. He discusses the reasons for military involvement in disaster relief and law enforcement operations, and the considerations and constraints by which the US federal legislation authorizes and limits it. The study is based on two cases of DSO in which the CNG participated as one of the leading agencies: the 1992 Los Angeles Riots as an example of military assistance in a civil disturbance operation and the 1994 Northridge Earthquake as an example of a disaster assistance operation.''

Civil-military relations in domestic support operations-The California National Guard in Los Angeles 1992 Riots and Northridge Earthquake of 1994 (Naval Postgraduate School,1997)

https://archive.org/details/civilmilitaryrel00khom

''For Nuclear Families''

''This booklet is a brief guide to 3 basic kinds of nuclear shelter:
■ Simple shelters for short-term indoor or out-door use which can be built from materials already at
hand.
■ Shelters that can be assembled from do-it-yourself kits.
■ Permanent custom-built shelters built into the ground.''

Domestic Nuclear Shelters Technical Guidance (UK Government handbook, 1981)

https://archive.org/details/DomesticNuclearSheltersTechnicalGuidance

''Praise the Lord and Pass the Atomic Ammunition''

This must be one of  the most  far fetched things you can find on the web. It makes the works of H.P. Lovecraft, P.K. Dick and W.S. Burroughs seem sedate by comparison. Like a prequel to A Canticle for Leibowitz. Amen! 

''All ground forces operating In a nuclear environment 
must expect exposure to radiation. Chaplains must be 
spiritually and emotionally prepared for ministering to an inimaginable
number of Injured and dying people''

The Chaplain Ministery (SIC) in a Nuclear Warfare Situation (U.S. Army Chaplain Center, 1973)

https://archive.org/details/chaplainminister00park

"On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a 
throne of blood! 
What was will be! What is will be no more! Now is 
the season of EVIL!"

''Essays and documents related to Hideous Gnosis, a symposium on black metal theory, which took place on December 12, 2009 in Brooklyn, NY.''

Hideous Gnosis-Proceedings of the First Black Metal Theory Symposium (Brooklyn, 2009)

https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_GCM2MFeJwfMC

''Bada bing, bada... Boom!''

The ruggedness, simplicity, low cost and effectiveness of the RPG-7 has made it the most widely used grenade launcher in history. More than nine million units have been delivered since it was introduced by the Soviet armed forces in 1961.The RPG-7 has been used in almost all conflicts since the 1960s, from Viet-Nam to Syria.

RPG-7 Soviet Antitank Grenade Launcher manual (U.S. Army, 1976)

https://archive.org/details/milmanual-rpg-7-antitank-grenade-launcher

''Say hello to my little friend!''

Operator's Manual For M16, M16A1 (1985)

https://archive.org/details/OperatorsManualForM16M16a1

''Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Bunko...''

''Air Force PSYOP forces support US national and military objectives through planned operations to convey information to target audiences. PSYOP provide a low-cost, high-impact method to deter adversaries and obtain the support of friendly or neutral target audiences. The effective use of PSYOP can provide asymmetrical advantages by exposing and exploiting adversaries’ resistance and psychological weaknesses to create uncertainty and ambiguity, thereby lowering their morale and will to fight and win. In combination with military operations, PSYOP can encourage popular discontent with the adversary’s leadership and degrade the enemy’s ability to conduct military operations.''

Psychological Operations (USAF, 1999)

https://archive.org/details/PsychologicalOperations_201502

''It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back''

''We estimated lifetime prevalence of psychedelic use (lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin (magic mushrooms), mescaline, and peyote) by age category using data from a 2010 US population survey of 57,873 individuals aged 12 years and older. There were approximately 32 million lifetime psychedelic users in the US in 2010; including 17% of people aged 21 to 64 years (22% of males and 12% of females). Rate of lifetime psychedelic use was greatest among people aged 30 to 34 (total 20%, including 26% of males and 15% of females).''
''...(A)pproximately 32 million lifetime psychedelic users in the US...'' - That is about 7 million more people than the current population of Australia, 24 million.

Over 30 million psychedelic users in the United States. (F1000 Research, 2013)

https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3917651

''Just the facts, ma'am''

Mescaline (D.E.A., 1986)

https://archive.org/details/mescaline_201408

''We are 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike''

''The main goal of this study was to find feasible methods and strategies for the deflection of large asteroids in the diameter range of 5 to 200 km.''

To the deflection of asteroids in the diameter range of 5 to 200 km (H.K. Hahn, 2014)

https://archive.org/details/ToTheDeflectionOfAsteroidsInTheDiameterRangeOf5To200Km

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you” 

U.S. Army Surveillance Of Civilians - A Documentary Analysis (U.S. Congress, 1972)

https://archive.org/details/ArmySurveillanceOfCiviliansADocumentaryAnalysis

''Hearts and minds''

Manual published by the Central Intelligence Agency that was distributed in Nicaragua in the early 1980s.

PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS IN GUERRILLA WARFARE (1981)

https://archive.org/details/PsychologicalOperationsInGuerrillaWarfare

''Did you hear THAT?''

Unusual Investigative Techniques (F.B.I., 1961)

https://archive.org/details/foia_FBI_Monograph-Unusual_Investigative_Techniques

''Lately it occurs to me...
What a long strange trip it has been''

''The aim of this study was to summarize the scientific evidence on the prevalence of psychoactive substance use and on the factors associated with their intake among truck drivers.''

Psychoactive substance use by truck drivers: A systematic review. (2013)

https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3888602

''We have the technology.'' 

''The design of a highly anthropomorphic human scale robot arm for space based operations is described.''

Design of the NASA Robonaut Hand (1999)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_20000097045

''Have space suit -Will travel.''

''DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN EXPERIENCES DERIVED IN DESIGNING SPACE SUITS FOR HUMAN HIGH ALTITUDE AND SPACE FLIGHTS ARE REPORTED. THE PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM IN WHICH THE FLIGHTS TAKE PLACE, THE PHYSICAL FLIGHT FACTORS AND THEIR INFLUENCE UPON THE HUMAN BODY ARE DISCUSSED. THE BASES OF THE THEORY AND METHOD OF DESIGNING SPACE SUIT SYSTEMS AND PARTS ARE BRIEFLY PRESENTED. THE BOOK IS DESIGNED FOR SPECIALISTS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF DESIGN, PRODUCTION, AND TESTING OF EQUIPMENT FOR PILOTS AND COSMONAUTS. IT IS ALSO USEFUL TO THE ENGINEERING-TECHNICAL PERSONNEL WORKING ON THE CREATION OF LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR THE CREWS OF MODERN SPACECRAFT''

HIGH ALTITUDE AND SPACE SUITS STUDIES (Alekseyev,S.M. ; Umanskiy, S.P. 1973)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19740007684

''Got a light?''

TM 3-1040-204-14 Flamethrower, Portable, M2A1-7 (1973)

https://archive.org/details/milmanual-tm-3-1040-204-14-flamethrower-portable-m2a1-7

''Hello! I see you!''

 BSTJ 50: 2 The Picturephone System:The Station:2C Video Telephone Station Set (1971)

https://archive.org/details/bstj50-2-271

''Phreak out.''

The Evolution and Special Features of Bell System Telephone Equipment Buildings (BSTJ 58: 2 1979)

https://archive.org/details/bstj58-2-427

''Auto De Fense''

A look at different types of anti protest weapons (including electrical, chemical, projectiles, sound frequency, etc.) and how to protect yourself from them. 

Excited Delirium - A protestor's guide to 'less-lethal' weaponry (2010's)

https://archive.org/details/ExcitedDelirium

''Hide in plain sight''

''Manual prepared for the Industrial camouflage program at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York''

Industrial Camouflage Manual (Pratt Institute Camouflage Laboratory, 1942)

https://archive.org/details/industrialcamouf00wittrich

''... (T)o contain unknown lunar organisms that might endanger life on earth."

The Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) became operational in 1969, its objective was to lower the risk of ''back contamination'' by astronauts and material brought from the Moon.  NASA had not planned for that eventuality when the Apollo program was implemented, so the LRL was designed and built (in less than three years) only after public concerns about the risk of alien pathogens. 
Today it is believed that if such contamination had been present the LRL would had been unable to contain it, mainly due to the procedures used to transport and handle its subjects and specimens. Oh well.

Lunar Receiving Laboratory Project History (2004)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_20040200959

''This is a crime against the state''

''The history of the electric guitar illustrates that a technology can neither be separated from the cultural values prevalent at the time of its creation nor those cultural values later ascribed to it.''

From tinkerers to gods :The electric guitar and the social construction of gender (Monique Bourdage, 2007)

https://archive.org/details/BourdageMonique

''More human than human.''

Mixed Reality and Human-Robot interaction (2009)

https://archive.org/details/Mixed_Reality_and_Human-Robot_Interaction

"Do not fold, spindle or mutilate"

''The history of computers - from the discovery of the abacus, through Jacquard and his use of punched cards in weaving, to the latest developments and the enormous potential for the future.''

Computers - The Machines We Think With (D.S. Halacy, 1969)

https://archive.org/details/computersmachine00dsha

''Maalintii Rangers''

After Action Report :The U.S. Army In Somalia,1992-1994 (2003)

https://archive.org/details/UnitedStatesForcesSomalia

''Ad astra, per aspera''

Studies on Lunar surface material from the Sea of Fertility- Soviet Lunik 16 lunar probe (1974)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19750003742

''Taking Tiger Mountain..." 

Secret lectures delivered at the Voroshilov Soviet General Staff Academy (1973-75) dealing with military doctrine, strategy, operational art, and tactics.

Issues of Soviet Military Strategy- (National Defense Univ. Press 1989-92) 

Volume 1-  https://archive.org/details/voroshilovvol100ghul

Volume 2-  https://archive.org/details/voroshilovvol200ghul

Volume 3-  https://archive.org/details/voroshilovvol300ghul

''I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered!''

''What are the dynamics behind youth subcultures such as punk, hippie, or hip-hop cultures? How does the global dynamics of these subcultures relate to the individual's search for a personal identity? We propose a simple dynamical model to address these questions and find that only a few assumptions of the individual's behaviour are necessary to regenerate known features of youth culture.''

Modelling the dynamics of youth subcultures (Peter Holme, 2014)

https://archive.org/details/arxiv-physics0504181

''Now with 100 Kb RAM!''

Compute! was an early personal computer magazine that covered most platforms including Commodore, Apple, Atari, etc...

Compute! Magazine (1979-94)

https://archive.org/details/compute-magazine

 ''Ka-Boom!''

''Not for the weak or the fainthearted'' Oh boy....

SH 21-76 Ranger Handbook (U.S. Army, 2011)
 
https://archive.org/details/RangerHandbook

''À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu''

''..(A) quaterly newsletter dedicated to the academic study of the type of music labelled ''punk''.''

Punk Research  Newsletter (1984-85)

https://archive.org/details/PunkResearchVol.1No.1may1984

https://archive.org/details/PunkResearchVol.2No.1march1985

''Four-one-one, may we help you?''

''...(C)omputers, BBS's, the telephone company, arcade games, radio equipment, general electronic equipment, cable and other utility companies and anything/everything nobody else wants to talk about...''

Blacklisted! 411 Magazine

https://archive.org/details/blacklisted411