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

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• The Science of High Explosives (New York: Reinhold Pub. Corp.; London: Chapman and Hall, c1958), by Melvin A. Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Schiess- und Sprengstoffe (in German; Leipzig: J. A. Barth, 1919), by Alfred Stettbacher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise (second edition; London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1906), by P. Gerald Sanford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Notices sur les Explosifs en Italie (translated into French; Milan: U. Hoepli, 1913), by Ettore Molinari and F. Quartieri (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• Marking, Rendering Inert, and Licensing of Explosive Materials: Interim Report (1997), by National Research Council Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Containing the Threat from Illegal Bombings: An Integrated National Strategy for Marking, Tagging, Rendering Inert, and Licensing Explosives and Their Precursors, by National Research Council Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (page images and partial HTML 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)

• Control of Explosives: Administration and Execution of the Laws Pertaining to the Control of Explosives: Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session (10 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1976), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arms and Explosives (partial serial archives)

• Targeting Ammunition: A Primer (Geneva: Small Arms Survey, c2006), ed. by Stéphanie Pézard and Holger Anders (PDF with commentary at smallarmssurvey.org)
• Arsenals of Democracy: Pictures and Tabloid Statistical Surveys of Fifteen Major Projects Under the National Defense Program (1941), by United States War Department (page images with commentary at archives.gov; pages may display in reverse order in some browsers)

• Voluntary Industry Performance Standards for Pressure and Velocity of Centerfire Pistol and Revolver Ammunition, for the Use of Commercial Manufacturers (ANSI/SAAMI Z299.3-2015, 93; c2015), contrib. by Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute and American National Standards Institute (PDF at saami.org)
• Voluntary Industry Performance Standards for Pressure and Velocity of Centerfire Rifle Sporting Ammunition, for the Use of Commercial Manufacturers (ANSI/SAAMI Z299.4-2015), contrib. by Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute and American National Standards Institute (PDF at saami.org)

• American National Standard Voluntary Industry Performance Standards for Pressure and Velocity of Shotshell Ammunition, for the Use of Commercial Manufacturers (ANSI/SAAMI Z229.2-2015, R2019), contrib. by Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute and American National Standards Institute (PDF at saami.org)
• American National Standard Voluntary Industry Performance Standards for Pressure and Velocity of Rimfire Sporting Ammunition, for the Use of Commercial Manufacturers (ANSI/SAAMI Z299.1-2013, R2018), contrib. by Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute and American National Standards Institute (PDF at saami.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)

• 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)
• 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
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  • 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)

• Aviation Safety and Pilot Control: Understanding and Preventing Unfavorable Pilot-Vehicle Interactions, by National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Proceedings of the OTA Seminar on the Discrete Address Beacon System (DABS) (OTA-BP-T-4; 1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• Die Schiess- und Sprengstoffe (in German; Leipzig: J. A. Barth, 1919), by Alfred Stettbacher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Theory of the Fluid Oscillations in a Circular Cylindrical Ring Tank Partially Filled With Liquid (NASA technical note D-557; Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1960), by Helmut F. Bauer (page images at HathiTrust)

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