This exceptionally dense technical archive documents U.S. Army rocket and missile development during the height of the Cold War and Vietnam War, originating from the estate of a retired aerospace engineer, Thomas T. Howell, affiliated with the U.S. Army Missile Command, with direct work conducted at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, and.....
[Cold War] [U.S. Military Intelligence] U.S. Army and Defense Intelligence Agency manuals documenting the evolution of American military intelligence doctrine from the early Cold War through the late détente period, with sustained focus on Soviet military organization, combat intelligence, subversion theory, and battlefield operations under the shadow of nuclear warfare.....
[Cold War] [U.S. Defense] Official U.S. Army intelligence and doctrinal publications on Soviet equipment and artillery produced at key Cold War moments when Soviet conventional forces, missile technology, and weapons systems were undergoing rapid modernization. These publications illustrate how American military institutions trained analysts and officers to identify Warsaw Pact.....
[Atomic Energy] Katzin, Leonard I., ed. Production and Separation of U²³³: Collected Papers (1952) documents the identification, production, and chemical isolation of uranium-233 during the Manhattan Project and its immediate postwar consolidation under the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Issued in 1952, the compilation preserves research establishing U²³³ as a......
[World War II][Atomic Bomb] Van Kirk, Theodore J. (“Dutch”). Single blueprint copy, inscribed and signed, dated “6 Aug 1945.” Single blueprint sheet. Annotated blueprint of “Little Boy,” the uranium-235 atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, inscribed and explained by Theodore Van Kirk, navigator of the B-29 Enola.....
US Army manuals on counterintelligence, interrogation, and combat. FM 30-17 Counterintelligence Operations, FM 30-15 Intelligence Interrogation, FM 30-5 Combat Intelligence, and the Fort Huachuca subcourse Counterintelligence Investigations trace the Army's printed intelligence doctrine from January 1972 to June 1989. The sequence begins after the Army established Military Intelligence as a......
Cold War missile and rocketry archive documenting the technical training, range testing, and operational instruction behind American ballistic missile development from the late 1950s through the 1970s. The material spans the Air Force’s intercontinental ballistic missile program, Strategic Air Command crew preparation, White Sands Missile Range instrumentation, and Army missile.....
A rare instructional archive from the height of the Cold War arms and space races, documenting the teaching strategies, technical priorities, and ideological frameworks used by the U.S. military to train service members in missile technology, physics, and emerging space policy. These materials reflect the growing importance of scientific education.....
[Early Computers] [ Space and Aviation] The National Military Establishment, Research and Development Board, Committee on Guided Missiles. Glossary of Guided Missile Terms. Washington, D.C.: Research and Development Board, 15 September 1948. 8vo. 72 pages. Original staple bound brown printed wrappers. Issued at the dawn of the Cold War and.....
Photographic archive of ninety-one silver gelatin prints dating from the 1950s to early 1960s documents the daily military and civilian life of an African American soldier stationed in Japan during the early Cold War, less than a decade after President Harry S. Truman’s 1948 executive order mandating desegregation of the.....
U.S. Army and Defense Department Soviet-threat instruction archive documenting late Cold War American intelligence on Soviet ground forces into battle-simulation tables, field doctrine, weapons comparisons, and nuclear battlefield procedures. "Soviet Military Power," carrying Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger's printed preface, shows Soviet tanks, artillery, helicopters, SS-20 and ICBM and.....
United States Department of the Air Force technical manual archive documenting the scientific and engineering foundations of American missile guidance, radar systems, and military electronics during the early Cold War, issued between 1951 and 1959. Produced for the Air Training Command, these instructional texts trained Air Force personnel responsible for.....
[African American Military][Segregation] African American soldiers’ photograph archive from the 1940s and 1950s, documenting Black military service in the Philippines and Korea during the transition from segregated World War II units to the early implementation of desegregation under President Harry S. Truman’s 1948 Executive Order 9981. 38 images showing African.....
Cold War U.S. military instruction archive of government-produced manuals and intelligence studies showing how the Army trained soldiers to recognize enemy weapons, report battlefield information, and classify Soviet military power. The archive includes a U.S. Army field manual which explains how battlefield reports became military intelligence. The Soviet weapons guide.....
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg espionage prosecution documented in photographs and legal records created during the early Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Rosenbergs were convicted in 1951 of transmitting atomic secrets related to the American nuclear weapons program to Soviet intelligence networks, making.....
Jeppson, Morris R. handwritten autograph letter signed, 6 August 1945, presents a sustained justification for the use of the atomic bomb by the weapons test officer aboard the B-29 Enola Gay during the Hiroshima mission. Morris R. Jeppson (1922–2010), who armed the Little Boy device in flight and served with.....
[Cold War] [Rocketry] U.S. Army missile defense and interceptor testing photographs, 1957–1970, document the United States military’s earliest sustained effort to design weapons capable of destroying incoming nuclear warheads during the Cold War confrontation with the Soviet Union. Created during the period when American defense planners sought technological defenses against.....
[Guided Missiles] [USSR] Coild War Soviet guided missile technology archive documenting Russian weapons development, and civil defense planning during the Cold War, when ballistic missile systems and nuclear strategy defined global military competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. Issued by Soviet military and state publishing bodies, these.....
11th Airborne Division paratroopers photographed during the early American occupation of Japan document airborne training and daily military life within one of the most distinguished U.S. Army airborne units of the Second World War. More than two hundred photographs dating primarily from 1947 depict members of the 11th Airborne Division.....
Rocket Propulsion Elements: An Introduction to the Engineering of Rockets by George P. Sutton, published in 1949, presented one of the earliest comprehensive American engineering texts explaining the scientific principles governing rocket propulsion systems. Appearing in the years immediately following World War II, the book addressed the rapid expansion of.....
United States military weapons and ammunition development documented in a group of photographs produced during the Cold War era at or associated with the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Missouri, circa late 1960s to early 1970s. The plant was established in 1941 to manufacture and test small caliber.....
Marx, Joseph L. Seven Hours to Zero. 1967 account of the planning and execution of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima containing a signed annotation by Theodore J. “Dutch” Van Kirk, navigator of the B 29 bomber Enola Gay. The book addresses the events leading to the United States’ use of.....
Jeppson, Morris R. Autograph letter discussing the Hiroshima atomic bombing written by the weapons test officer aboard the B 29 Enola Gay, the aircraft that delivered the first atomic bomb used in warfare on 6 August 1945. Morris Jeppson served as the officer responsible for arming the uranium bomb known.....
U.S. Air Force Missile Test Center news release fact sheets issued between 1957 and 1962 document the development of intercontinental and intermediate range ballistic missile systems during the Cold War arms race and the expansion of American aerospace capabilities at Patrick Air Force Base. Produced under the Air Research and.....
Archive of twelve items relating to the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, D.C., April 4, 1949, documents the formal creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the institutional beginning of the Atlantic alliance system in the early Cold War. The materials include official proceedings, printed treaty.....
