''Togetherness''

This article,  published in the December 1960 issue of Aerospace Magazine, describes safety procedures for the correct handling of the Boeing BOMARC air defense missile during air transport. The tone of the article is unusual for such a subject -' 'As this article goes to press, the safety record of Bomarc airlifts can be summed up in four words: so far, so good. You may recall, however, the optimist who jumped off the top of a New York office building. He was heard to yell the same thing as he passed the 20th floor: so far, so good''
The writer of the article, some guy named Thomas Pynchon, quit Boeing in 1962 and went on to become a novelist of some renown.

Aerospace Safety Magazine, 12/1960, USAF

http://www.vheissu.net/bio/eng_togetherness.htm

''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

 ''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

''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

''... (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

''Unidentified- flying- object." 

An internal report from Project Blue Book, the USAF program that dealt with the UFO ''problem''.
Special Report No. 14 was an statistical analysis of U.F.O. report cases gathered from 1947 to 1954, some 3,200. It represents the largest such study ever undertaken.  Cases were divided into three categories-"knowns", "unknowns", and "insufficient information."
Blue Book was cancelled  in 1968. 

Project Blue Book Special Report #14 (USAF Air Technical Intelligence Center, 1954)

https://archive.org/details/ProjectBlueBookSpecialReport14

''It's only the dead dreams of The Cold War Kid.''

DEW Line-Distant Early Warning, The Miracle Of America's First Line Of Defense (1957)

https://archive.org/details/DewLine

''Target in sight. Where in hell is Major Kong?''

B-52E Stratofortress Characteristics Summary  (Boeing,July 1964)

https://archive.org/details/B-52EStratofortressCSJuly1964

"It's a boy."

Fallout report about the first H-Bomb explosion, the Ivy Mike test. It had a ten megaton yield,  700 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima in 1945.

WT-615 -Fallout nature, distribution and intensity from the first H-bomb test (U,S. Defense Dept. 1952). 

https://archive.org/details/WT-615

"We've sure got a mess in here"

Living and working in space. A history of Skylab (N.A.S.A.,1983)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19840017669

''A screaming comes across the sky.'' 

The American reverse engineering program of the German A-2.

Final report- Project Hermes V-2 Missile Program (Genertal Electric Corp. 1952)

https://archive.org/details/finalreportproje00whit

''This is Houston. Say again, please.''

''But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!''

 Apollo 13 - Press Kit (1970)

https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_20040050622

''Relax, everything will be alright...''

U.S. Army Technical Manual, TM 5-311 (1965)- For Nuclear, Chemical and Biological operations.

https://archive.org/details/armytechnicalman003467mbp

''This is not a place of honor.''

Warning future generations about radioactive waste burial sites. Or at least trying to.
''Sandia National Laboratories charged a panel of outside experts with the task to design a 10,000-year marking system for the WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) site, and estimate the efficacy of the system against various types of intrusion. The goal of the marking system is to deter inadvertent human interference with the site.''
Some of the people involved in this Sisyphean task did not believe that it was even possible for it to be accomplished-

''If the WIPP is ever operational, the site may pose a greater hazard than is officially acknowledged. Yet the problems involved in marking the site to deter inadvertent intrusion for the next 10,000 years are enormous. Even if knowledge exists that would allow translation of the message on the markers, there might be little motivation to solicit such knowledge. Pictorial messages, however, are unreliable and may even convey the opposite of what is intended.''
Maybe if they had hired Robert Smithson...

Sandia National Laboratories report (SAND92-1382 / UC-721)

http://www.wipp.energy.gov/picsprog/articles/wipp%20exhibit%20message%20to%2012,000%20a_d.htm