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- Precision and Non-Lethal Weapons: Pulsed Energy Projectile Concept (2005)
Document · 2005
Precision Strike & Targeting Symposium presenter; name not verified
2005 defense industry presentation on the Pulsed Energy Projectile, a concept that creates a plasma blast close to the body, with effects depending on power. A…
- Proclamation 9704: 10 Percent Tariff on Imported Aluminum (2018)
Government Record · 2018
President Donald J. Trump
President Trump's March 2018 proclamation placing a 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum under Section 232.
- Proclamation 9705: 25 Percent Tariff on Imported Steel (2018)
Government Record · 2018
President Donald J. Trump
President Trump's March 2018 proclamation placing a 25 percent tariff on imported steel under Section 232.
- Protocol IV on Blinding Laser Weapons (1995)
Government Record · 1995
United Nations; U.S. Department of State
Protocol IV, 1995: the treaty banning laser weapons designed to permanently blind. Blinding as a side effect of other lasers is not banned. The U.S. joined…
- Raven Rock Mountain Complex (Site R) Archaeological Site Revisit (ERDC/CERL TR-19-10)
Government Record · 2019
Carey L. Baxter, Adam D. Smith, Ellen R. Hartman; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
An Army Corps of Engineers report on Raven Rock Mountain, known as Site R. It says the site was built in 1951 and is now run…
- Records of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency, Record Group 330 (National Archives)
Government Record · 1995
National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives guide entry for the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency, the office that ran Operation Paperclip. It confirms the foreign scientist case files, 1945 to…
- Remarks: DoD Acquisition and Logistics Excellence Week Kickoff, Bureaucracy to Battlefield (September 10, 2001)
Transcript · 2001
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's speech the day before 9/11, in which he said the Pentagon could not track $2.3 trillion in transactions.
- Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair (1987)
Government Record · 1987
House and Senate Select Committees on the Iran-Contra Affair (H. Rept. 100-433, S. Rept. 100-216)
The joint House and Senate committees' 1987 report on the secret sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of proceeds to the Nicaraguan Contras despite…
- Report to the National Security Council by the Executive Secretary (Lay), NSC 159/4
Government Record · 1953
National Security Council; approved by President Dwight D. Eisenhower
A 1953 National Security Council paper approved by President Eisenhower ordering urgent plans to keep the Executive Branch running in a nuclear war and to relocate…
- REPUBLIC Act, Senate Report 118-316
Government Record · 2024
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
A 2024 Senate committee report stating that Presidential Emergency Action Documents from the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations authorized suspending habeas corpus, detention, censorship and travel…
- Richard A. Arenberg: Oral History Interviews (Senate Historical Office)
Transcript · 2010
Richard A. Arenberg; Senate Historical Office
A Senate staffer's 2010 oral history describing the Greenbrier congressional bunker: more than 112,000 square feet, steel-reinforced walls two feet thick.
- Sandia: Active Denial Technology (2005)
Government Record · 2005
Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories, 2005: the Active Denial System fires a 95 GHz beam that penetrates about 1/64 inch into skin, causing intense pain. Exposure is limited…
- Securing Australia’s Sovereignty (Pine Gap statement)
Government Record · 2023
Richard Marles, Australian Minister for Defence
Australia's Defence Minister on Pine Gap: jointly run with the United States for intelligence, communications, counterterrorism, arms-control verification and missile early warning, with half the staff…
- Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing: Directed Energy Incidents on U.S. Soil (2022)
Government Record · 2022
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Senate Intelligence Committee hearing record, 2022: Senator Shaheen raised reports of suspected directed-energy incidents on U.S. soil, including one near the White House Ellipse in late…
- Senate Intelligence Committee: Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq (2004)
Government Record · 2004
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Senate Intelligence Committee, July 2004: most key judgments in the 2002 intelligence estimate on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were overstated or not supported by the…
- Silberman-Robb Commission: Report on Iraq WMD Intelligence (2005)
Government Record · 2005
Silberman-Robb Commission
Presidential WMD Commission, March 2005: U.S. intelligence was "dead wrong" on almost all its prewar judgments about Iraq's weapons, a major failure. On the same page,…
- Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds, and the Flying Fish: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, 2-4 August 1964
Government Record · 2000
National Security Agency (Robert J. Hanyok, Cryptologic Quarterly)
An internal NSA history by agency historian Robert J. Hanyok, published in the classified Cryptologic Quarterly and declassified in 2005. It concludes that the second reported…
- Smithsonian: BEAR Neutral Particle Beam Accelerator
Document
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian Air and Space Museum: its BEAR particle-beam accelerator. "No deployed weapon has ever employed this technology."
- State Department 3 FAM 3660: HAVANA Act Payments
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Department of State
State Department Foreign Affairs Manual: how HAVANA Act payments work, one-time, tax-free lump sums tied to the Senior Executive pay scale.
- State Department: Havana Accountability Review Board (2018)
Government Record · 2018
U.S. Department of State Accountability Review Board
State Department Accountability Review Board, June 2018 (declassified): the department's response to the Havana incidents showed "a lack of senior leadership, ineffective communication, and systemic disorganization."
- Statement by the President on Signing the HAVANA Act (2021)
Government Record · 2021
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
President Biden's October 2021 statement signing the HAVANA Act.
- Statement by the President on strikes in Afghanistan and Sudan
Government Record · 1998
William J. Clinton
Clinton's August 20, 1998 statement ordering strikes in Afghanistan and Sudan, 3 days after his grand jury testimony.
- The 9/11 Commission Report, Chapter 4: Responses to Al Qaeda’s Initial Assaults (1998 strikes)
Government Record · 2004
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
The 9/11 Commission Report, Chapter 4: some Republicans in Congress questioned the timing of the 1998 strikes. The Commission says officials based their advice on national…
- The Greenbrier Goes to War (National Park Service)
Government Record · 2022
National Park Service
The National Park Service's history of the Greenbrier bunker: the government renewed its lease in 1957 to build it, finished it in 1962 for all 535…