''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

''Maalintii Rangers''

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

https://archive.org/details/UnitedStatesForcesSomalia

''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

'"Hünde, wollt ihr euwig leben?" 

PAM 20-1 A Guide To Army Philosophy (U.S. Army, 1958)

https://archive.org/details/PAM20-1

''The Enemy Below''

 Anti-submarine Warfare: A strategy primer (U.S. Navy 1988)

https://archive.org/details/antisubmarinewar00bree

''Be the First Kid in Your Block to Rule the World!''

''This study was made to present a method for the conceptual design of tactical missiles.''

Tactical missile conceptual design (1980)

https://archive.org/details/tacticalmissilec00redm

"Been there, done that...''

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan dossier (N.S.A.1998)

https://archive.org/details/pdfy-xaNd1zi8Pg020EbZ

1958: ''How the Web Was Won''

 

The Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE)  air defense system was designed by IBM for the US Air Force in the early 1950s to coordinate the response to air attack:

''Its innovative technological contributions to IBM and the IT industry as a whole were significant. These included magnetic-core memories, which worked faster and held more data than earlier technologies; a real-time operating system (a first); highly disciplined programming methods; overlapping computing and I/O operations; real-time transmission of data over telephone lines; use of interactive terminals and input light pens (a first); redundancy and backup methods and components; and the highest reliability of computer systems (uptime) of the day. It was the first geographically distributed, online, real-time application of digital computers in the world. Because many of the technological innovations spun off from this project were ported over to new IBM computers in the second half of the 1950s by the same engineers who had worked on SAGE, the company was quickly able to build on lessons learned in how to design, manufacture and maintain complex systems.''
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/sage/

SAGE Air Defense System general manual (I.B.M.,1958)

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibmsageSAGm1958_18586730

SAGE Air Defense System Input System (I.B.M.,1958)

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibmsage352_26517675

''Long live the New Flesh!''

The introduction of portable video cameras in the late 1960s brought about a new field- independent video. Radical Software was a journal started in 1970 to cover aspects of the new medium - from production, distribution, community work and political activism to theoretical,aesthetic and economic issues.

Radical Software (1970-74)

http://www.radicalsoftware.org/e/index.html

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

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

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

''Psychological forces exert a decisive influence on the elements involved in war.''

''Psychological Strategy Board Document that "covers in summary fashion the major developments during the past six years on that broad politico-military area of national policy which has been variously identified as propaganda, psychological warfare, or psychological operations."''

The Development of American Psychological Operations, 1945-51

https://archive.org/details/CIA-American-Psychological-Operations

"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 have seen Mary Baker Eddy with one eye.''

''A cryptic sentence (''We have seen Mary Baker Eddy with one eye'') was inserted into a commercial short-wave broadcast to inform British Royal Radar Establishment of the invention of the T/R (Transmit/Receive) switch allowing a single radar antenna to be used for both transmitting and receiving (having seen the Christian Science building with just one antenna).''

 Five years at the Radiation Laboratory (1946,M.I.T.)

https://archive.org/details/fiveyearsatradia00mass

''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