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Bomb reconnaissance

Here are entered works on the location, identification, and application of safety measures as protection against unexploded bombs which have been set to detonate.

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• Bombs
• Civil defense

• Bomb reconnaissance -- Technological innovations

• 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.

• 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)

• Expedient Shelter Construction and Occupancy Experiments (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1976), by Cresson H. Kearny (page images at HathiTrust)

• 11 Steps to Survival (1969 edition), by Canada Emergency Measures Organization (PDF at webpal.org)

• Front Line 1940-41: The Official Story of the Civil Defence of Britain (1942, with added commentary by the transcriber), by Great Britain Ministry of Home Security (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)

• 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)

• National Response Framework (second edition, 2013; with supplementary materials), by United States Department of Homeland Security (PDF files with commentary at fema.gov)
• A Handbook for Auxiliary Police (Washington: GPO, 1942), by United States Office of Civilian Defense Training Section, contrib. by United States Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Ball State

• The Blitz Companion: Aerial Warfare, Civilians and the City Since 1911 (London: University of Westminster Press, c2019), by Mark Clapson (multiple formats with commentary in the UK)

• The Blitz Companion: Aerial Warfare, Civilians and the City Since 1911 (London: University of Westminster Press, c2019), by Mark Clapson (multiple formats with commentary in the UK)

• Air War and Emotional Stress: Psychological Studies of Bombing and Civilian Defense (first edition; New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1951), by Irving L. Janis (page images at HathiTrust)

• National Strategy for Homeland Security (July 2002), by United States Office of Homeland Security (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• 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)
• The United States Citizens Defense Corps (1942), by United States Office of Civil Defense
  • embedded PDF at smu.edu
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Cyberdeterrence and Cyberwar (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, c2009), by Martin C. Libicki (multiple formats with commentary at rand.org)
• Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (May 1959, reprinted January 1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Expedient Shelter Construction and Occupancy Experiments (Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1976), by Cresson H. Kearny (page images at HathiTrust)

• Disposal of Chemical Weapons: Alternative Technologies (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book (2007), ed. by Nalaka Gunawardene and Frederick Noronha (PDF files at tveap.org)

• Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book (2007), ed. by Nalaka Gunawardene and Frederick Noronha (PDF files at tveap.org)

• The Tsunami of March 9, 1957, As Recorded at Tide Stations (US Coast and Geodetic Survey technical bulletin #6; Washington: GPO, 1959), by G. G. Salsman (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.