Entries 41–50, oldest first.
Soviet special forces training manual for Alpha Team (KGB elite anti-terrorism unit), published in English by Paladin Press in 1993. Covers physical conditioning, combat techniques, building assault, and covert operations. 324 pages.
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University for Peace training manual on nonviolent resistance and social transformation in African contexts. Produced by the Africa Programme of the UN-chartered University for Peace. 144 pages.
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Declassified collection of interviews with NSA COMINT personnel spanning four decades, covering cryptanalysis, signals intelligence operations, and World War II era Black Chamber and OP-20-G activities.
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42-page Army Garrison Fort Wainwright historical study documenting three decades of military equipment testing in extreme Arctic conditions, from environmental chambers at -60°F to operational field trials.
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Work of the US federal government, not subject to copyright (17 U.S.C. 105).
10-page Interstate Commerce Commission accident investigation (Report No. 3779) into the derailment of passenger train No. 30 at Medford, Massachusetts, which killed 2 passengers and injured 71 when the train entered a temporary track at 57 mph in rain conditions.
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300-page NTSB investigation into the October 2015 sinking of a 40-year-old container ship in Hurricane Joaquin, which killed all 33 crew members northeast of the Bahamas.
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101-page NTSB investigation of the September 2, 2019 fire aboard the Conception, a 75-foot dive boat that burned and sank at Platts Harbor, killing 34 of 39 people aboard.
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Federal Railroad Administration report, 15 pages, on a head-end collision at 1:20 a.m. between a coal train and a helper locomotive on a single-track line, killing two crewmen. Includes signal tables, track geometry, a stopping-distance test and photographs of the signal's sight lines.
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Department of Energy report on a plutonium-238 release in a storage room at the Plutonium Facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory, on August 5, 2003, which put radiation doses on two workers. 94 pages.
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Richard Gann of NIST on the Defense Department's Next Generation Fire Suppression Technology Program, 1997 to 2006, and the ozone research behind it. 12 pages.
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