Military Technologies

The Militarily Critical Technologies List (MCTL) Part II: Weapons of Mass Destruction Technologies (February 1998)

MCTL-98-II Introduction, Table of Contents (75 KB PDF)
MCTL-98-II Section 1 – Means of Delivery Technology (388 KB PDF)
MCTL-98-II Section 2 – Information Systems Technology (212 KB PDF)
MCTL-98-II Section 3 – Biological Weapons Technology (215 KB PDF)
MCTL-98-II Section 4 – Chemical Weapons Technology (424 KB PDF)
MCTL-98-II Section 5 – Nuclear Weapons Technology (1 MB PDF)
MCTL-98-II Section 6 – Nuclear Weapons Effects Technology (250 KB PDF)
MCTL-98-II Appendixes, Index (508 KB PDF)

Nuclear Weapons Effects

Fire Effects of Bombing Attacks (1950) (2.6 MB PDF)

AFP 136-1-3 The Effects of Nuclear Weapons (June 1956) (25 MB PDF)

P-2745 – Thermal Radiation from Nuclear Explosions (August 1963) (1.2 MB PDF)
P-3026 – Fireball Phenomenology (October 1964) (2 MB PDF)

Defense Nuclear Agency Effects Manual Number 1 - Capabilities of Nuclear Weapons (1 July 1972)

DNA EM-1 Part I (32~ MB PDF)
DNA EM-1 Part II (29.8 MB PDF)

The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, Third Edition (1977)

CHAPTER 1: General Principles of Nuclear Explosions (3.2 MB PDF)
CHAPTER 2: Descriptions of Nuclear Explosions. (7.5 MB PDF)
CHAPTER 3: Air Blast Phenomena in Air and Surface Bursts (4.5 MB PDF)
CHAPTER 4: Air Blast Loading (2.7 MB PDF)
CHAPTER 5: Structural Damage from Air Blast (9.4 MB PDF)
CHAPTER 6: Shock Effects of Surface and Subsurface Bursts (5.2 MB PDF)
CHAPTER 7: Thermal Radiation and Its Effects (5.5 MB PDF)
CHAPTER 8: Initial Nuclear Radiation (6.4 MB PDF)
CHAPTER 9: Residual Nuclear Radiation and Fallout (7.6 MB PDF)
CHAPTER 10: Radio and Radar Effects (6 MB PDF)
CHAPTER 11: The Electromagnetic Pulse and its Effects (3.3 MB PDF)
CHAPTER 12: Biological Effects (9.8 MB PDF)

Post Attack Recovery and Civil Defense

OCD Publication 3401-1: Forest Fire Fighters Service (December 1942) (2.2 MB PDF)
United States Citizen Defense Corps (Unknown Date) (15 MB PDF)
Enrolled Volunteer Groups For Civilian Protection (August 1941) (2.9 MB PDF)
Civilian Protection: Why, What, How, Who, Where, When (October 1941) (1.6 MB PDF)
A Handbook for Messengers (December 1941) (5.5 MB PDF)

Fort Detrick BW Reconstitution Letter (10 July 1957) (1.3 MB PDF)

TB-11-1: Emergency Exposures to Nuclear Radiation (October 1958) (PDF)
TB-11-19: Protection against Fallout Radiation (October 1958) (PDF)

Civil Defense Messenger ID Card
Safety Notification Card – Post Office Form 810 (February 1959)
Canadian Emergency Change of Address Postcard (Blue Card)
Canadian Safety Notification Postcard (Pink Card)

U.S. Civil Service Commission; Employee Letter A-103 (13 November 1962)

Office of Civil Defense Research Report No. 10: Probability of Effective Post-Attack Fire Fighting in Wildlands (March 1965) (400 KB PDF)

DPCA Standards for Local Civil Defense and Disaster Preparedness, Final Draft (June 1972) (7.5 MB PDF)

CPG 1-1 Introduction to Civil Preparedness (July 1975) (5.3 MB PDF)
CPG 1-6 Disaster Operations – A Handbook for Local Governments (July 1972) (24.8 MB PDF)
CPG 1-19 Guidance for Development of An Emergency Fallout Shelter Stocking Plan (July 1978) (PDF)

CPG 2-1 DCPA Attack Environment Manual (June 1973)

Chapter 1: Introduction to Nuclear Emergency Operations (3.9 MB PDF)
Chapter 2: What the Planner Needs to Know about Blast and Shock (13.3 MB PDF)
Chapter 3: What the Planner Needs to Know about Fire Ignition and Spread (8.9 MB PDF)
Chapter 4: What the Planner Needs to Know about Electromagnetic Pulse (2.5 MB PDF)
Chapter 5: What the Planner Needs to Know about Initial Nuclear Radiation (1.5 MB PDF)
Chapter 6: What the Planner Needs to Know about Fallout (7.2 MB PDF)
Chapter 7: What the Planner Needs to Know about the Shelter Environment (8.1 MB PDF)
Chapter 8: What the Planner Needs to Know about the Post-Shelter Environment (5 MB PDF)
Chapter 9: Application to Emergency Operations Planning (5 MB PDF)

SC-5600.1 Federal/State and Local Civil Preparedness Relationships (August 1972) (1.4 MB PDF)

ORNL-5037 Nuclear War Survival Skills (September 1979) (15.9 MB PDF)

DOD/OCD H-6: Fallout Protection – What to Know and do About Nuclear Attack (December 1961) (2.6 MB PDF)

USNRDL-TR-659 Civil Defense Utilization of Ships and Boats (16 July 1963) (9.3 MB PDF)

Main Body
Appendixes

USDA Food Allowances Post-Attack (1976)

FEMA Nuclear Attack Planning Base – 1990 (NAPB-1990) (April 1987)

NAPB-1990 Main Report (3.29 MB PDF)
NAPB-1990 Annex A: Direct Effects & Fire Risk Statistics & Maps (4.25 MB PDF)
NAPB-1990 Annex B: Fallout Risk Statistics & Map (6.11 MB PDF)

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Post-Attack Plan (1992) (PDF)

Fortifications (Air Defense, Missile Defense, Missile Silos, etc)

FEMA 426: Reference Manual to Mitigate Potential Terrorist Attacks Against Buildings (December 2003) (12.9 MB PDF)
FEMA 427: Primer for Design of Commercial Buildings to Mitigate Terrorist Attacks (December 2003) (6.16 MB PDF)
FEMA 430: Site and Urban Design for Security: Guidance against Potential Terrorist Attacks (December 2003) (36.6 MB PDF)

EM 1110 Series: Design of Structures to Resist the Effects of Atomic Weapons

EM 1110-345-413 DSREAW: Weapons Effects Data (1 July 1959) (10.1 MB PDF)
EM 1110-345-420 DSREAW: Arches and Domes (15 January 1960 (3.5 MB PDF)
EM 1110-345-421 DSREAW: Buried and Semiburied Structures (15 January 1960) (2.1 MB PDF)

UFC 3-340-13 Basic Guidelines for Chemical Hardening of New Military Facilities (16 January 2004) (9 MB PDF)

TM 3-220 Chemical, Biological, and Radiological (CBR) Decontamination

TM 5-1300 Structures to Resist the Effects of Accidental Explosions (November 1990) (73 MB PDF)

TM 5-311 Military Protective Construction: Nuclear Warfare and Chemical and Biological Operations (May 1965)

TM 5-855 Series:

TM 5-855-1 Fundamentals of Protective Design for Conventional Weapons (3 November 1986)
TM 5-855-2 Protection against Chemical and Biological Agents and Radiological Fallout (19 January 1961)
TM 5-855-3 Protective Design, Antisabotage Measures (1965?)
TM 5-855-4 Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning of Hardened Installations (28 November 1986)
TM 5-855-5 Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse (NEMP) Protection (15 Feburary 1974)

TM 5-856 Series – Design of Structures to Resist the Effects of Atomic Weapons

TM 5-856-1 DSREAW: Weapons Effects Data
TM 5-856-3 Design of Structures to Resist Effects of Weapons
TM 5-856-4 Design of Structures to Resist Atomic Weapons
TM 5-856-5 DSREAW: Single-Story Frame Building (July 1965)
TM 5-856-6 DSREAW: Multi-Story Frame Building
TM 5-856-7 DSREAW: Shear Wall Structures (January 1958)
TM 5-856-8 DSREAW: Arches and Domes (January 1960)
TM 5-856-9 DSREAW: Buried/Semi-Buried Structures

TM 5-857 Series:

TM 5-857-1 DESIGN OF UNDERGROUND INSTALLATIONS IN ROCK
TM 5-857-2 DESIGN OF UNDERGROUND INSTALLATIONS IN ROCK TUNNEL
TM 5-857-3 DESIGN OF UNDERGROUND INSTALLATIONS IN ROCK SPACE
TM 5-857-4 DESIGN OF UNDERGROUND INSTALLATIONS IN ROCK
TM 5-857-5 DESIGN OF UNDERGROUND INSTALLATIONS IN ROCK

TM 5-858 Series: Designing Facilities to Resist Nuclear Weapon Effects

TM 5-858-1 DFAC-RNWE: Facilities System Engineering (31 October 1983)
TM 5-858-2 DFAC-RNWE: Weapons Effects (6 July 1984)
TM 5-858-3 DFAC-RNWE: Structures (6 July 1984) (16 MB PDF)
TM 5-858-4 DFAC-RNWE: Shock Isolation Systems (11 June 1984)
TM 5-858-5 DFAC-RNWE: Air Entrainment, Fasteners, Penetration Protection, Hydraulic Surge Protective Devices and EMP Protective Devices (15 Dec 1983) (3.83 MB PDF)
TM 5-858-6 DFAC-RNWE: Hardness Verification (31 August 1984) (7.3 MB Internet Archive PDF) (2.53 MB Google Books PDF)
TM 5-858-7 DFAC-RNWE: Facilities Support Systems (Incl C1) (15 October 1983) (354 KB PDF)
TM 5-858-8 DFAC-RNWE: Illustrative Examples (14 Aug 1985) (4.1 MB Google Books PDF)

These Technical Manuals were superceded by the following Unified Facilities Criteria:

TM 5-858-1 = UFC 3-340-02AN
TM 5-858-2 = UFC 3-340-03AN
TM 5-858-3 = UFC 3-340-04AN
TM 5-858-4 = UFC 3-340-05AN
TM 5-858-5 = UFC 3-340-06AN
TM 5-858-6 = UFC 3-340-07AN
TM 5-858-7 = UFC 3-340-08AN
TM 5-858-8 = UFC 3-340-09AN

ABM/SAM Systems

Speech: Defence of the North American Continent (30 November 1953) (1.3 MB PDF)
Memorandum on ABM Progress from SecDef to the President (10 December 1958) (45 KB PDF)
PSAC Panel on AICBM – Minutes of the Meeting of 17 December 1958 (10 February 1959) (121 KB PDF)
Report of the AICBM Panel (21 May 1959) (327 KB PDF)
Statement concerning the Army's Role in Air Defense (22 May 1959) (108 KB PDF)
Excerpts from the Report of the AICBM Panel (4 November 1959)
Memorandum on the Anti-Ballistic Missile Weapon System Program from SecDef to POTUS (23 April 1960) (111 KB PDF)
Memorandum on Nike-Zeus (18 October 1960) (108 KB PDF)
Excerpts from ODDR&E Assessment of Ballistic Missile Program (17 April 1961) (3.86 KB TXT)
Excerpts from the Report of the Ad Hoc Panel on Nuclear Testing (21 July 1961) (212 KB PDF)
Excerpts from Memorandum to the President on the Program for Deployment of Nike-Zeus (30 September 1961) (422 KB PDF) (Note: Due to poor quality of scan, only a few excerpts are HTMLed. The full document is available at the PDF link)
Memorandum on the Limited Deployment of NIKE-ZEUS (23 October 1961) (267 KB PDF)
Excerpt from Report on the Proposed Army-BTL Ballistic Missile Defense System (29 October 1965) (630 byte TXT)
Report of the Task Force on Ballistic Missile Defense (15 September 1966) (644 KB PDF)
Chronology of the Development of Ballistic Missile Defense (1955 to Current FY) (14 July 1970) (2.26 MB PDF)

Hardened Shelters/Silos

JCS 2101/294 - Provision of Blast Shelters at SAC Bases (21 February 1958) (232 KB PDF)
Memorandum on Vunerability of Atlas Missile Sites (3 December 1959) (24 KB PDF)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

General Operational Requirement for an ACE IRBM System (9 December 1958) (170 kb PDF)

Warsaw Pact

Czechslovakia

Informal remarks by Czechoslovak Chief of General Staff, Gen. Otakar Rytif, at a Confidential Meeting of General Staff Officials, Prague (13 March 1968)
Memorandum by Thirty Scholarly Associates of the Military Political Academy and Military Technical Academy for the Czechoslovak Communist Party Central Committee (4 June 1968)

Poland

Statute of the Unified Command of the Member States of the Warsaw Treaty (7 September 1955)
Memorandum on the Warsaw Treaty and the Development of the Armed Forces of the People's Republic of Poland (10 January 1957)
Memorandum by the Polish Ministry of National Defense (26 January 1966)

US/UK Agreements/Memoranda/Etc

Procedures for the Committing to the Attack of Nuclear Retaliatory Forces in the United Kingdom – 1958
Aide Memoire – Launching of Nuclear Reprisal – 14 May 1958
Operational Status of Thor [Missiles] – 12 May 1959
Letter to Secretary of Defense concerning Genie for U.K. Air Defense Forces – 17 June 1959
Request for Authority to Provide Atomic Weapons for U.K. Air Defense Forces – 15 October 1959

United States – Aircraft

Memorandum on Capabilities of Entire USAF Considering Atomic vs H.E. Weapons - Specific Inference to Matsu and Quemoy Applications (31 March 1955) (166 KB PDF)
Telegram to CINCSAC regarding B-47 crash at Lakenheath AFB (22 July 1956) (32 KB PDF)
Memorandum on the B-47's Conventional Capability (1 November 1957) (70 KB PDF)
B-52 Penetration Aids Modification Program (20 February 1959) (105 KB PDF)
Memorandum on the B-70 Weapons System by Thomas S Power (11 August 1959) (186 KB PDF)
Memorandum to the President: Problems of the B-70 Project (12 February 1960) (47 KB PDF)
Memorandum on Concept of B-70 Weapon System (19 September 1960) (76 KB PDF)
National Security Action Memorandum 24 – RB-47 Reconnaissance Flights (27 February 1961) (118 KB PDF)
Memorandum Urging Delaying of B-47 Phaseout (6 April 1964) (254 KB PDF)
DoD Internal Releases on the YF-12A Project (August 1965 to July 1966) (57 KB PDF)
Telegram concerning use of F-106 as ASAT carrier (April 1971) (86 KB PDF)

United States – Miscellaneous Papers'

The Role of the U.S. Merchant Marine in National Security - NAS-NRC Report 748 (1959) (1.6~ MB PDF)
IDA Study S-467 The Evolution of U.S. Strategic Command and Control and Warning; 1945-1972 (23 MB PDF)
RDA-TR-4301-001: A Soviet Paramilitary Attack on U.S. Nuclear Forces – A Concept (November 1974) (885 KB PDF)

United States Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)

Letter to President regarding Custody of Atomic Weapons (23 March 1956) (72~ KB PDF)
Memorandum to SecDef concerning Weapons Systems [available] for Strategic Delivery (20 January 1959) (55 kb PDF)
Memorandum to Deputy SecDef on Weapons Systems Information (F-108 and Minuteman); (24 July 1959) (131 kb PDF)
Recommended FY 1964-FY 1968 Strategic Retaliatory Forces (21 November 1962) (1.5 MB PDF)
Memorandum for the Secretary of the Air Force regarding GAM-87A (2 December 1961) (105 KB PDF)
Recommended FY 1967-FY 1971 Strategic Retaliatory Forces (1 November 1965) (1.5~ MB PDF)
Third Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Penetration (15 September 1967) (335 kb PDF)
History of the Strategic Arms Competition: 1945-1972 (March 1981) (29 MB PDF)

United States Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)

JCS 2019/238 – Implementing Instructions for the Expenditure of Nuclear Weapons (15 August 1957) (191~ KB PDF)
JCS 1899/398 – Launching of the Strategic Air Command Alert Force (10 March 1958) (57~ KB PDF)
Instructions for Expenditure of Nuclear Weapons in Emergency Conditions (December 1959) (132 KB PDF)
Attack of Hardened Targets In FY 1966 (Unknown Date) (70 kb PDF)

Weapons Systems Evaluation Group

WSEG Report No 12 Briefing - “Evaluation of an Atomic Offensive in Support of the Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan”

United States Air Force (USAF)

Commander's Conference (Strategic Air Command) (25-27 April 1950) (2.3 MB PDF)
General LeMay's Diary (22-23 January 1951) (62 KB PDF)
Memorandum for General Twining on the Ability of Aircraft Carriers to contribute to the SAC Offensive (6 June 1955) (133 KB PDF)
Memorandum for General Twining on allocation of Nuclear Weapons (6 June 1955) (72~ kb PDF)
SAC Position on Missiles (26 November 1955) (135 KB PDF)
Curtis E. LeMay Remarks at Commander's Conference (January 1956) (950~ KB PDF)
Commander's Conference; Strategic Air Command (9 July 1956) (375~ KB PDF)
Memorandum authorizing Atomic Weapons for defense of CONUS (11 December 1956) (36 KB PDF)
Blast-Off Commander's Conference, Strategic Air Command (Partial Copy – about 50 pages have been deleted) (12 February 1957) (1 MB PDF)
Speech given by Curtis E LeMay at Patrick AFB on the Operational Side of Air Offense (21 May 1957) (516~ KB PDF)
Memorandum on SAC's Alert Posture by Thomas Power (21 October 1957) (120~ KB PDF)
USAF Commander's Conference (10 June 1958) (177~ KB PDF)
Memorandum on Future Strategic Forces (12 June 1958) (95 KB PDF)
Memorandum concerning SAC Airborne Alert Plan (31 March 1959) (28~ kb PDF)
Memorandum on SAC Dispersal (7 April 1959) (35~ KB PDF)
SAC Force Level Proposal; FY62-66 (2 March 1962) (43 KB PDF)
GAM-87A Skybolt Production Program Memo (31 August 1962) (64 KB PDF)
Memorandums on Multiple Warheads (8 July 1964) (64 kb PDF)

USAF Historical Studies

Historical Study #61: The Strategic Air Command, A Chronological History 1946-1956 (Partial copy; only goes up to 1948 and is missing 25 pages on recon ops in the 1940s) (6.6 MB PDF)
Excerpts from Headquarters, Strategic Air Command's History for 1961 (Full Document is a 6.5 MB PDF)
USAF Ballistic Missiles [Programs] 1958-1959 (3.4 MB PDF)
USAF Ballistic Missile Programs 1962-1964 (7.5 MB PDF)
USAF Ballistic Missile Programs 1964-1966 (5 MB PDF)
USAF Ballistic Missile Programs 1967-1968 (7.4 MB PDF)
USAF Ballistic Missile Programs 1969-1970 (5.4 MB PDF)
The Air Force and Strategic Deterrence 1951-1960 (4.6 MB PDF)

United States Navy (USN)

Proposed Plan for Atomic Bomb Test Against Naval Vessels (January 1946) (365~ KB PDF)
Memorandum from W.S. Parsons on Dinner with General LeMay (8 November 1948) (105~ kb PDF)
The Tenets of Naval War Planning (18 April 1949) (774~ KB PDF)
Memorandum concerning loading of Atomic Shapes onto CVB-41 (1 May 1951) (57~ KB PDF)
Memo OP-36C - Briefing given to the representatives of all services at SAC Headquarters, Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, on 15 March, 1954 (March 18, 1954)
Preliminary Views on POLARIS in Relation to Recent Events (24 October 1956) (233~ KB PDF)
CNO Memorandum on Minuteman (27 March 1959) (248 KB PDF)
Army participation in the NSTL/SIOP (1 November 1960) (119~ KB PDF)
CINCPAC OPLAN 1-61 – General War Plan (26 January 1961) (294~ KB PDF)
Memorandum on CVAs in SIOP role (“Cannot Out-SAC SAC”) (13 March 1961) (74~ kb PDF)E:\Alternate Wars\Main Page\WW3\WW3_Documents\CIA\SNIE_100-7-58.pdf

United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

National Intelligence Estimates
No. 100-7-58 – Sino-Soviet and Free World Reactions to US use of Nuclear Weapons in Limited Wars in the Far East (22 July 1958) (604 KB PDF)
No. 11-8-61 -- Soviet Capabilities for Long Range Attack (Excerpt Only) (7 June 1961)
No. 11-14-85/D - Trends and Developments in Warsaw Pact Theater Forces, 1985-2000 (Excerpt Only) (September 1985)

United States Office of the President

Memorandums to the President
Consequences of Thermonuclear War Under Various Conditions of Outbreak (28 October 1961) (250 kb PDF)

National Security Council
NSD 203: Revised Guidelines for Stockpile Planning (6 February 1973) (70 kb PDF)

United States Department of State

Miscellaneous Documents
Memorandum on Strategic Air Command Exercise "HEADSTART" (13 September 1958) (51 KB PDF)
Memorandum of Conversation – Basic National Security Policy (2 July 1959) (305 KB PDF)

United States Department of Energy

Miscellaneous Documents

Virtual Nuclear Weapons by Joseph Pilat (1.8~ MB PDF)