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Bombs

Here are entered general works on bombs and works on bombs launched from aircraft.

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• Ammunition
• Projectiles, Aerial

• Bombings

• Bombs -- Design and construction
• Atomic bomb
• Bomb reconnaissance

• Aerial bombs

• Report on the Availability of Bombmaking Information, the Extent to Which its Dissemination is Controlled by Federal Law, and the Extent to Which Such Dissemination May Be Subject to Regulation Consistent with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution (1997), by United States Department of Justice (HTML with commentary at cryptome.org)

• Report on the Availability of Bombmaking Information, the Extent to Which its Dissemination is Controlled by Federal Law, and the Extent to Which Such Dissemination May Be Subject to Regulation Consistent with the First Amendment to the United States Constitution (1997), by United States Department of Justice (HTML with commentary at cryptome.org)

• Secret (Detroit: Chrysler Corp., 1947), by Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb Under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945 (slightly updated version of GPO edition; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945), by Henry De Wolf Smyth, contrib. by Leslie R. Groves (page images at HathiTrust)
• A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes Under the Auspices of the United States government, 1940-1945 (Washington: GPO, 1945), by Henry De Wolf Smyth, contrib. by Leslie R. Groves (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Many Uses of the Atom (Headline Series #117; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1956), by Waldemar Kaempffert (multiple formats at archive.org)
• I Have Been to the Village (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1948), by Daniel Q. Posin, contrib. by Albert Einstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atomic Challenge (Headline Series #63; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1947), by William A. Higinbotham and Ernest Kidder Lindley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy (aka the Acheson Report; 1946), by United States Department of State Committee on Atomic Energy, contrib. by Dean Acheson
  • page images at HathTtrust
  • reprint: PDF at cia.gov

• The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by Manhattan Engineer District (Gutenberg text)

• The Pallid Giant: A Tale of Yesterday and Tomorrow (New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1927), by Pierrepont Noyes (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Virus House, by David John Cawdell Irving (zipped PDF with commentary at fpp.co.uk)

• The New World, 1939-1946 (first volume of an ongoing history of the United States Atomic Energy Commission; University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1962), by Richard G. Hewlett and Oscar E. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Manhattan District History (36 volumes; redacted declassified version, released 2013), by Manhattan Engineer District, ed. by Gavin Hadden (PDF files at osti.gov)

• Project Trinity, 1945-1946, by Carl R. Maag and Steve Rohrer (Gutenberg text)

• Project Trinity, 1945-1946, by Carl R. Maag and Steve Rohrer (Gutenberg text)

• Effects of Ionizing Radiation: Atomic Bomb Survivors and Their Children (1945-1995) (1998), ed. by Leif E. Peterson and Seymour Abrahamson (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by Manhattan Engineer District (Gutenberg text)

• Facts About Fallout (1955), by United States Federal Civil Defense Administration (page images with commentary at archives.gov; pages may display in reverse order in some browsers)

• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Emergency Management (1980), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (text with commentary at textfiles.com)
• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968), by United States Office of Civil Defense (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (May 1959, reprinted January 1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Fallout Protection: What to Know and Do About Nuclear Attack (1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Facts About Fallout (1955), by United States Federal Civil Defense Administration (page images with commentary at archives.gov; pages may display in reverse order in some browsers)
• Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives, by United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Gutenberg text)

• Mortality of Veteran Participants in the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test (1996), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Radiological Assessments for Resettlement of Rongelap in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (1994), by National Research Council Commission on Life Sciences (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident (c2013), ed. by Tomoko M. Nakanishi and Keitaro Tanoi (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)

• Black and Smokeless Powders: Technologies for Finding Bombs and the Bomb Makers, by National Research Council Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Cover-Up Exposed: The 1994 AMIA Bombing Case Hits the Wall (New York: American Jewish Committee, ca. 2004), by Sergio Kiernan (PDF at ajc.org)
• A Tangled Road to Justice: The AMIA Trial Nine Years Later (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2003), by Sergio Kiernan (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• A Glimmer of Hope: The AMIA Bombing, Five Years Later (New York: American Jewish Committee, ca. 1999), by Sergio Kiernan (PDF at ajcarchives.org)

• The Bomb (London: J. Long, c1908), by Frank Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bomb (first American edition; New York: M. Kennerley, 1909), by Frank Harris
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Bomb (illustrated and definitive edition, with a new afterword; New York: The author, 1920), by Frank Harris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Bomb (with a 1963 introduction by Dos Passos), by Frank Harris, contrib. by John Dos Passos (HTML at theanarchistlibrary.org)

• Airpower Versus Terrorism: Three Case Studies (2003), by Todd R. Phinney (PDF at dtic.mil)

• Beirut Tragedy, "A New Crowd in Town" and Beirut Casualties, Care and Identification: Report, Together With Supplemental Views, of the Delegation to Beirut of the Committee on Armed Services and Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session (Washington: GPO, 1983), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Department of Defense Appropriations, Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session: Situation in Lebanon and Grenada (Washington: GPO, 1983), by United States House Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)
• The U.S. Embassy Bombing in Beirut: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittees on International Operations and on Europe and the Middle East of the House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session, June 28, 1983 (Washington: GPO, 1983), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. Marines in Lebanon, 1982-1984 (Washington: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, US Marine Corps, 1987), by Benis M. Frank
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Report of the DOD Commission on Beirut International Airport Terrorist Act, October 23, 1983 (1983), by DOD Commission on Beirut International Airport Terrorist Act, October 23, 1983 (page images at HathiTrust)
• U.S. Marines in Lebanon, 1982-1984 (Washington: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, US Marine Corps, 1987), by Benis M. Frank
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, by David Hoffman (HTML with commentary at constitution.org)

• The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, by David Hoffman (HTML with commentary at constitution.org)

• Detection of Explosives for Commercial Aviation Security (1993), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Black and Smokeless Powders: Technologies for Finding Bombs and the Bomb Makers, by National Research Council Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Airpower Versus Terrorism: Three Case Studies (2003), by Todd R. Phinney (PDF at dtic.mil)

• Investigation Report: Formal Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Downing of Iran Air Flight 655 on 3 July 1988 (redacted declassified release; Washington: US Dept. of Defense, originally prepared 1988), by William M. Fogarty (PDF at dod.mil)
• Iran Air Flight 655 Compensation: Hearings Before the Defense Policy Panel of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session, Hearings Held August 3 and 4, September 9, and October 6, 1988 (Washington: GPO, 1989), by United States House Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)

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