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• Holding the Edge: Maintaining the Defense Technology Base (2 volumes; 1989-1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • main volume: page images at HathiTrust
  • main volume: PDF files at Princeton
  • appendixes volume: PDF at unt.edu
• Freedom's Arsenal: The Story of the Automotive Council for War Production (Detroit: Automobile Manufacturers Association, 1950), by Automobile Manufacturers Association (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Best Enemy Money Can Buy (1986), by Antony C. Sutton (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• A Complete System of Bayonet Exercise (first edition; London: William Clowes and Sons, 1853), by Richard Francis Burton (PDF page images at burtoniana.org)

• Construct-a-Catapult (c2000), by Technical Education Research Centers and Lee Pulis (PDF with commentary at ed.gov)

• Construct-a-Catapult (c2000), by Technical Education Research Centers and Lee Pulis (PDF with commentary at ed.gov)

• Project Cyclops (c1992), by Thomas Hoover (Gutenberg multiple formats)

• A Course of Instruction in Ordnance and Gunnery, Prepared for the Use of the Cadets of the United States Military Academy (third edition; New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1867), by James G. Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ordnance Manual for the Use of Officers of the United States Army (second edition; Washington: Gideon and Co., printers, 1850), by United States Army Ordnance Department, ed. by Alfred Mordecai (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ordnance Manual for the Use of the Officers of the United States Army (second edition; Richmond, VA: West and Johnston, 1861), by United States Army Ordnance Department
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Shells and Shell-Guns (Philadelphia: King and Baird, printers, 1856), by John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ordnance Manual, for the Use of the Officers of the Confederate States Army: Prepared Under the Direction of Col. J. Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance, and Approved by The Secretary of War (Charleston, SC: Evans and Cogswell, 1863), by Confederate States of America War Department, contrib. by Josiah Gorgas
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, by Victor Appleton (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• Directed Energy Missile Defense in Space (1984), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• French-English Dictionary of Machine Gun Terms (Menasha, WI: G. Banta Pub. Co., c1918), by Harry James Malony, Frank Short, and H. Morton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago, With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition, by John H. Parker (Gutenberg text)

• Hand-Book of the Lewis Machine Gun (Airplane Type), Model 1917-18, Caliber .30 (Utica, NY: Savage Arms Corporation, ca. 1918), by Savage Arms Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Weapons of Terror: Freeing the World of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Arms (2006), by Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, contrib. by Hans Blix (PDF at wmdcommission.org)
• Federal Response to Domestic Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction-Training for First Responders: Hearing Before the Military Research and Development Subcommittee of the Committee on National Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held March 21, 1998 (Washington: GPO, 1998), by United States House Committee on National Security (page images at HathiTrust)
• Know Thy Enemy: Profiles of Adversary Leaders and Their Strategic Cultures (second edition, 2003), ed. by Barry R. Schneider and Jerrold M. Post (PDF files at af.mil)
• Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Risks (OTA-ISC-559; 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Assessment of the International Science and Technology Center: Redirecting Expertise in Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Former Soviet Union (1996), by National Research Council Office of International Affairs (page images with commentary at NAP)

• A Deeper Blue (included on the Claws That Catch Baen CD image; c2007), by John Ringo
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 285 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 286 MB
• Unto the Breach (included on a Baen CD image; c2006), by John Ringo
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 190 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 190 MB

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

• Facing the Flag (New York: The Federal Book Company, 1897), by Jules Verne (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
• Facing the Flag (New York: F. M. Lupton, 1897), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg HTML)

• Deterrence and Defense in a Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Environment (1999), by Robert G. Joseph and John F. Reichart (page images at Google)

• The Nuclear Energy Option (1990), by Bernard L. Cohen (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Nuclear Safeguards and the International Atomic Energy Agency (OTA-ISS-615; 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • PDF at dtic.mil
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• The Rollback of South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Program (2001), by Stephen Franklin Burgess and Helen E. Purkitt (PDF at af.edu)

• The Rollback of South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Program (2001), by Stephen Franklin Burgess and Helen E. Purkitt (PDF at af.edu)

• Tempting Fate: Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Paul C. Avey (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Denial and Jeopardy: Deterring Iranian Use of NBC Weapons (1997), by Paula A. Desutter (HTML at fas.org)

• Iraq: Setting the Record Straight (2005), by Project for the New American Century (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs (2002), by United States Central Intelligence Agency (illustrated HTML and PDF at fas.org)
• Can Iraq Be Deterred From Using Weapons of Mass Destruction? (Naval Postgraduate School master's thesis, 1997), by Michael T. Klemick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Report of the Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence for Strategy Regarding Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs: Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, October 6, 2004 (Washington: GPO, 2005), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, contrib. by Charles Duelfer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq's WMD (3 volumes, 2004), by Charles Duelfer and United States Central Intelligence Agency
  • Volume 1: PDF at cia.gov
  • Volume 2: PDF at cia.gov
  • Volume 3: PDF at cia.gov
• Efforts to Determine the Status of Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction and Related Programs: Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Second Session, January 28, 2004 (Washington: GPO, 2004), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, contrib. by David Kay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Compendium of Iraq's Proscribed Weapons Programmes in the Chemical, Biological and Missile Areas (2007), by United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (PDF files at Wayback Machine)
• The Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction Report to the President of the United States (2005), by United States Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (PDF and HTML at wmd.gov)
• Intelligence Update: Chemical Warfare Agent Issues During the Persian Gulf War (2002), by Persian Gulf War Illnesses Task Force and United States Central Intelligence Agency (PDF at hsdl.org)
• Selected publications (2000-2007), by United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (PDF files at Wayback Machine)

• Middle East Security Issues in the Shadow of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation (1999), ed. by Barry R. Schneider (PDF at af.mil)

• The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons (2003), by Sidney D. Drell and James E. Goodby, contrib. by George P. Shultz (PDF files at Hoover Institution)
• The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn't Matter--And What Does (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by William A. Schwartz and Charles Derber (HTML at UC Press)
• Nuclear Proliferation and Safeguards (2 volumes; 1977), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • Volume I (main report): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II, part 1 (Appendixes I-V): PDF files with commentary at Princeton
  • Volume II, part 2 (Appendices VI-IX): PDF files with commentary at Princeton
• Transforming Nuclear Deterrence (1997), ed. by Hans Binnendijk and James E. Goodby (HTML at fdlp.gov)

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