1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456065703321

Titolo

Blast mitigation for structures [[electronic resource] ] : 1999 status report on the DTRA/TSWG Program / / Committee for Oversight and Assessment of Blast Effects and Related Research, Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC., : National Academy Press, c2000

ISBN

0-309-56321-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (85 p.)

Disciplina

624.1760973

Soggetti

Building, Bombproof

Buildings - Blast effects

Structural analysis (Engineering)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references.

Nota di contenuto

Blast Mitigation for Structures; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Acronyms; Executive Summary; CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; REFERENCES; 1 Introduction; SCOPE OF THE STUDY; ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY; ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT; REFERENCE; 2 The Blast Mitigation for Structures Program; PROGRAM REVIEW; Program Goal and Objectives; Program Activities; Program Organization and Funding Profiles; PROGRAM ASSESSMENT; Observations; CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION; REFERENCES; 3 Review of Program Activities; STRUCTURAL ISSUES; Progressive Collapse; Computational Modeling

Small-Scale versus Full-Scale TestingDamaged Test Articles; Component Testing; Next Class of Structures; Internal versus External Blasts; Existing Buildings as Test Articles; Retrofits; Multihazard Mitigation; REDUCING INJURIES THROUGH NONSTRUCTURAL APPROACHES; Nonstructural Systems; Modeling for Injury Prediction; Rescue and Recovery; INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS; CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; REFERENCES; 4 Technology Transfer; BACKGROUND; NEEDS OF THE ENGINEERING COMMUNITY; BUILDING



CODES AND STANDARDS; ROLE OF ACADEMIA; HANDLING OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION; A FRAMEWORK FOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONREFERENCES; Appendixes; A Biographies of Committee Members; B Blast Mitigation for Structures Program Master Plan; Draft In-Progress; EXECUTIVE SUMMARY; ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS; BLAST MITIGATION FOR STRUCTURES PROGRAM MASTER PLAN; APPENDIX A - TECHNICAL APPROACH

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910693568503321

Autore

Rodino Mr.

Titolo

Constitution of the United States of America as amended : unratified amendments, analytical index / / Mr. Rodino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : U.S. G.P.O., , 1987

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (156 pages)

Disciplina

342.73/03

Soggetti

Constitutions - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910155846903321

Autore

Kurlantzick Joshua

Titolo

A great place to have a war : America in laos and the birth of a military cia. / / Joshua Kurlantzick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Old Saybrook, : Tantor Media, 2017

ISBN

1-5159-9039-7

Edizione

[Unabridged.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (9 audio files) : digital

Classificazione

HIS000000HIS003000HIS027110

Disciplina

959.704/38

Soggetti

Nonfiction

History

Military

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Audiolibro

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Unabridged.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1960, President Eisenhower was focused on Laos, a tiny Southeast Asian nation few Americans had ever heard of. Washington feared the country would fall to communism, triggering a domino effect in the rest of Southeast Asia. So in January 1961, Eisenhower approved the CIA's Operation Momentum, a plan to create a proxy army of ethnic Hmong to fight communist forces in Laos. While remaining largely hidden from the American public and most of Congress, Momentum became the largest CIA paramilitary operation in the history of the United States. The brutal war, which continued under Presidents Kennedy and Nixon, lasted nearly two decades, killed one-tenth of Laos's total population, left thousands of unexploded bombs in the ground, and changed the nature of the CIA forever. Joshua Kurlantzick gives us the definitive account of the Laos war and its central characters, including the four key people who led the operation—the CIA operative who came up with the idea, the Hmong general who led the proxy army in the field, the paramilitary specialist who trained the Hmong, and the State Department careerist who took control over the war as it grew.