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• Managing unexploded ordnance on federal lands : oversight hearing before the Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, second session ... hearing held in Seaside, CA, May 2, 1994. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

• Environmental assessment of demonstration testing (United States, Dept. of Defense, Program Manager for Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment, 1998), by United States. Dept. of Defense. Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment Program (page images at HathiTrust)

• Environmental laws : encroachment on military training? : hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, first session, April 2, 2003, on the impact of environmental laws upon military training procedures and upon the nation's defense security. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2004), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works (page images at HathiTrust)
• Readiness impact of range encroachment issues, including endangered species and critical habitats; sustainment of the maritime environment; airspace management; urban sprawl; air pollution; unexploded ordinance [i.e. ordnance]; and noise : hearing before the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, March 20, 2001. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support (page images at HathiTrust)
• Challenges to national security : constraints on military training : hearing before the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, May 9, 2001. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2001), by United State House Committee on Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)
• Readiness impact of range encroachment issues, including endangered species and critical habitats; sustainment of the maritime environment; airspace management; urban sprawl; air pollution; unexploded ordinance [i.e. ordnance]; and noise : hearing before the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, March 20, 2001. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support (page images at HathiTrust)

• Effects of military training and fire in the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area (The Station, 1996), by United States. Bureau of Land Management. Lower Snake River District, Idaho. Army National Guard, and Snake River Field Station (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ecological potential of White Sands Missile Range to support a reintroduced population of Mexican wolves (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1989), by James C. Bednarz and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Agreement between the United States of America and Canada, effected by exchange of notes, signed at Washington February 10, 1993 (Dept. of State :, 1997), by Canada, United States. 1993 Feb. 10, and United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)

• Officers Club, building no. 114 : Sandy Hook Unit, Gateway National Recreation Area, Fort Hancock, New Jersey : historic structure report (Historic Architecture Program, Northeast Region, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 2006), by James J. Lee and United States. National Park Service. Northeast Region (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fort Hancock (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Gateway National Recreation Area, 1990), by Thomas J. Hoffman and Gateway National Recreation Area (N.J. and N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gateway area proposals : hearings before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-second Congress, first session, on H.R. 1370, to establish the Sandy Hook National Seashore in the State of New Jersey, and for other purposes, [and] H.R. 1121 and related bills, to provide for the establishment of the Gateway National Seashore in the States of New York and New Jersey, and for other purposes, hearings held in New York, N.Y., June 26, 1971; Washington, D.C., July 19 and 20, 1971. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1972), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cultural landscape report for the Sandy Hook coastal defense batteries, Gateway National Recreation Area, Fort Hancock, New Jersey (National Park Service, Olmstead Center for Landscape Preservation, 2010), by Timothy W. Layton, H. Eliot Foulds, and Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cultural landscape report for the Sandy Hook coastal defense batteries, Gateway National Recreation Area, Fort Hancock, New Jersey (National Park Service, Olmstead Center for Landscape Preservation, 2010), by Timothy W. Layton, H. Eliot Foulds, and Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• General management plan amendment : development concept plan and interpretive prospectus : Sandy Hook Unit, Gateway National Recreational Area, New York/New Jersey. (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1990), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cultural landscape report for the Sandy Hook coastal defense batteries, Gateway National Recreation Area, Fort Hancock, New Jersey (National Park Service, Olmstead Center for Landscape Preservation, 2010), by Timothy W. Layton, H. Eliot Foulds, and Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Subcommittee hearings on H.R. 1741, to authorize the establishment of a joint long-range proving ground for guided missiles, and for other purposes ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1949), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Full committee hearings on H.R. 1741, H.R. 2546, H.R. 2663 ([U.S. G.P.O.], 1949), by United States House Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sound of Freedom: Naval Weapons Technology at Dahlgren, Virginia, 1918-2006 (ca. 2006), by James P. Rife and Rodney P. Carlisle
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  • PDF with commentary at dtic.mil

• Improved management of Department of Defense test and evaluation facilities : hearing before the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, May 21, 2002. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities (page images at HathiTrust)
• Improved management of Department of Defense test and evaluation facilities : hearing before the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, May 21, 2002. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities (page images at HathiTrust)

• Department of Defense live fire testing policy : hearing before the Acquisition Policy Panel of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first session, hearing held September 10, 1987. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1988), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Acquisition Policy Panel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hearing protectors for use on firing ranges. (Dept. of Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1973), by United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration and National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)

• GSA release of indemnification covenant in deed to former Navy practice bombing range in Florida hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session, on H.R. 8502 ... March 16, 1978. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Effects of military training and fire in the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area (The Station, 1996), by United States. Bureau of Land Management. Lower Snake River District, Idaho. Army National Guard, and Snake River Field Station (page images at HathiTrust)

• Land acquisition, Dare County, N.C., Navy-Air Force range. Hearing before a subcommittee, Eighty-eighth Congress, first session, on Air Force Acquisition Project No. 35, Navy-Air Force leasehold acquisition renewal annually for 10 years, 55,000 acres more or less, for use as a practice weapons range to provide training for Navy and Air Force fighter crews. April 18, 1963. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1963), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• Policies and procedures for firing ammunition for training, target practice, and combat : safety. (Headquarters, Departments of the Army and Navy, 1990), by United States. Dept. of the Army and United States. Navy Dept (page images at HathiTrust)

• Range modernization, parts 1 and 2 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Procurement, and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second annual report of the President's Missile Sites Labor Commission (The Commission?, 1963), by United States. Missile Sites Labor Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Range modernization, parts 1 and 2 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Procurement, and United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)

• From sand to moondust : -- a narrative of Cape Canaveral, from discovery to moon shot. (Dept. of the Air Force, Headquarters 45th Space Wing (AFSPACECOM), 1986), by 45th United States. Air Force Space Command. Space Wing (page images at HathiTrust)

• White Sands Missile Range information brochure. (U.S. Army, 1991), by United States Army (page images at HathiTrust)

• Range users handbook. (White Sands Missile Range, 1985), by White Sands Missile Range (N.M.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Range privatization : how fast, how soon, and how much? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, September 28, 2000. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2001), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Range privatization : how fast, how soon, and how much? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the Committee on Science, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, September 28, 2000. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2001), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Endaht muhtırası (Mekteb-i Harbiye Matbaası, 1910), by Mardinîzade Ömer Fevzi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Land acquisition, Dare County, N.C., Navy-Air Force range. Hearing before a subcommittee, Eighty-eighth Congress, first session, on Air Force Acquisition Project No. 35, Navy-Air Force leasehold acquisition renewal annually for 10 years, 55,000 acres more or less, for use as a practice weapons range to provide training for Navy and Air Force fighter crews. April 18, 1963. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1963), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lead exposure and design considerations for indoor firing ranges (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Center for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Technical Services : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975), by Thomas L. Anania, Joseph A. Seta, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (page images at HathiTrust)

• Utah Test and Training Range Protection Act : report (to accompany H.R. 2909). (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2004), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hearing protectors for use on firing ranges : NILECJ standard : a voluntary national standard (NILECJ : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1973), by National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arsenale, Darsena e campo del tiro a segno in Pavia, cenni cronistorici con tavole in fototipia (Tip. Fratelli Fusi, 1886), by Giovanni Vidari and Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hearing protectors for use on firing ranges : NILECJ standard : a voluntary national standard (NILECJ : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1973), by National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)

• Guardians of the high frontier. (Air Force Space Command, 1996), by United States. Air Force Space Command (page images at HathiTrust)
• Range users handbook. (White Sands Missile Range, 1985), by White Sands Missile Range (N.M.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A magnetic-guideway/guided-projectile system concept for aeroballistic ranges (Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee : Arnold Engineering Development Center, Von Karman Gas Dynamics Facility, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1977., 1977), by George D Arney, Charles W Pender, United States. Air Force. Systems Command, Arnold Engineering Development Center, and Inc ARO (page images at HathiTrust)

• Expanded use of Ascension Island (U.S. Dept. of State :, 1998), by Great Britain, United States. 1985 Mar. 25, and United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Annual reports, War Department <1908/09- (Washington [D.C.] : Government Printing Office, 1892-, 1888), by United States. Board of Ordnance and Fortification and United States War Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the mechanical properties of steel, chiefly with reference to gun construction on the Woodbridge system. (Government printing office, 1875), by W. E. Woodbridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report upon the practice in Europe with the heavy Armstrong, Woolwich, and Krupp rifled guns (Govt. print. off., 1883), by United States. Board of Engineers for Fortifications and Zealous Bates Tower (page images at HathiTrust)
• The elastic strength of guns, prepared and arranged as a text book for the use of cadets at the U.S. Naval academy. Department of ordnance and gunnery. (The Deutsch lithographing and printing co.], 1891), by John Forsyth Meigs, Royal Rodney Ingersoll, and United States Naval Academy. Dept. of ordnance and gunnery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Siege artillery in the campaigns against Richmond, with notes on the 15-inch gun, including an algebraic analysis of the trajectory of a shot in its ricochets upon smooth water. (Govt. print. off., 1867), by Henry L. Abbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of experiments on the resistance of thick cast-iron cylinders to internal pressures : and reply to remarks made thereon by the Ordnance Board (Mills, Knight & Co., 1881), by T. T. S. Laidley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practice at the experimental battery. Part first (C. Alexander, printer, 1850), by United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance, Bernard Albert Sinn, Richard W. Meade, and John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of experiments on the properties of metals for cannon, and the qualities of cannon powder; with an account of the fabrication and trial of a 15-inch gun (C.H. Crosby, 1861), by United States Army Ordnance Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructions for proof of guns and carriages including star-gauging of guns and taking impressions of bore, February 16, 1905, revised November 7, 1906 ... revised January 28, 1913. (G.P.O., 1916), by United States. Army. Ordnance Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aerodynamic properties of 4.9-calibers long, square based shell at transonic speeds (Aberdeen, Maryland : Aberdeen Proving Ground, 1954., 1954), by L. E. Schmidt, U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• The generation and propagation of seismic energy from a buried explosive source (Aberdeen, Maryland : Aberdeen Proving Ground, 1960., 1960), by A. A. Thompson, U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Inspection and proof of cannon. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1864), by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance (page images at HathiTrust)

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