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• Title: American Experience: The Satellite Sky
  Author: WGBH Boston, WNET New York, KCET Los Angeles
  Publication Date: 6/12
  Format: Film
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 1283
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: Documentary about space exploration and the race to the sky. Hosted by David McCullough
  
  
• Title: Arms Control and Disarmament: A Bibliography
  Author: Richard Dean Burns
  Publication Date: 1977
  Format: Print
  Location: McKeldin Reference Stacks
  Call No./URL/Item No.: JX1974.7.B8
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  
  
• Title: Bibliography: Nuclear Proliferation
  Author: Environment and Natural Resources Policy Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
  Publication Date: 1978
  Format: Print
  Location: Government Documents
  Call No./URL/Item No.: SU DOC Y 4.G 74/9:N 88/3
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1970s
  Description: Prepared for the House Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation and Federal Services of the Committee on Governmental Affairs and the Committee on International Relations and Committee on Science and Technology.
  
  
• Title: Bureau of Atomic Tourism
  Author: Bureau of Atomic Tourism
  Publication Date: 2000
  Format: Online
  Location: Networked WWW
  Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.atomictourist.com/
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: Links to atomic museums' web sites and information about atomic explosions.
  
  
• Title: Chemical/Biological Disarmament
  Author: University of Michigan Documents Center/Susan P. Wright
  Publication Date: 2000
  Format: Online
  Location: Network WWW
  Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/disarm.html
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: Guide to finding background and subject-specific material, international organizations, and US documents.
  
  
• Title: Cold War Era Human Subject Experimentation
  Author: Legislation and National Security Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, U.S. House of Representatives
  Publication Date: 1994
  Format: Print
  Location: Government Documents
  Call No./URL/Item No.: Y 4.G 74/7:C 67/2
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: Hearing before the Legislation and National Security Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, September 28, 1994.
  
  
• Title: Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. Collected Writings, 1901-1956
  Author: Albert Einstein
  Publication Date: 1973
  Format: Microform
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: QC16.E5A2 1973
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: This collection constitutes the first edition in any form of the complete works of Albert Einstein. It contains more than 600 items. The index includes a section which affords access to the writings by title and subject (McKeldin Reference QC16.E5A21 1973).
  
  
• Title: History of Science, Technology & Medicine database
  Author: RLG
  Publication Date: 1975
  Format: Online
  Location: Network WWW
  Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.lib.umd.edu/cgi-bin/eureka?db=hst
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: International bibliography for the history of science, technology, and medicine and their influence on culture, from pre-history to the present. Indexes (and some abstracts) of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in all scientific disciplines and related fields.
  
  
• Title: INSPEC database
  Author: INSPEC, The Institution of Electrical Engineers
  Publication Date: 1969
  Format: Online
  Location: Network WWW
  Call No./URL/Item No.: http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=INSPEC;FSIP
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: Cites scientific and technical journals and proceedings in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and control, and information technology from 1969 to the present.
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• Title: Institute on Man and Science - China in the World Drama
  Author: Institute on Man & Science
  Publication Date: 11/2
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA 68-33-12
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
  TimePeriod: 1960s
  Description: Lecture/discussion series on major current problems of urban decay, pollution, space exploration, role of science in solutions. Talks were held during summer 1968 at Institute on Man and Science, New York. This program :China in the World Drama. William Hung, Research Professor, Harvard-Yenching Institute
  
  
• Title: Institute on Man and Science - Understanding China
  Author: Institute on Man & Science
  Publication Date: 11/2
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA 68-33-11
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: Asia & Oceania
  TimePeriod: 1960s
  Description: Lecture/discussion series on major current problems of urban decay, pollution, space exploration, role of science in solutions. Talks were held during summer 1968 at Institute on Man and Science, New York. This program : Understanding China. Dr. Chih Meng, Director Emeritus of the China Institute in America 11/20/1968
  
  
• Title: Interview from Deep Space
  Author: David Randolph Scott/Encyclopedia Americana/CBS News Audio Resource Library
  Publication Date: 1971
  Format: Audio
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: D411.V5 1971 Aug no.3 item 4
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1970s
  Description: On their return to earth, the crewmen of Apollo 15 discuss their landing on the moon.
  
  
• Title: JPRS Report, Soviet Union/Central Eurasia: Aviation & Cosmonautics
  Author: Foreign Broadcast Information Service
  Publication Date: 1987
  Format: Microform
  Location: Government Documents
  Call No./URL/Item No.: PrEx 7.13:JPRS-UAC-
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: Soviet Union
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: Translation of selected articles from: Aviatsiia i kosmonavtika, published in Moscow by Military Publishing House.
  
  
• Title: Manhattan Project: Official History and Documents
  Author: National Archives and Records Administration
  Format: Microform
  Location: McKeldin Microform
  Call No./URL/Item No.: QC773.ALM3
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1940s
  Description: This collection includes material on the diplomatic history of the Manhattan Project as well as the daily log, the diary of Colonel Mathias, and reports on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Manhattan Engineering District, later known as the Manhattan Project, was formed upon the recommendation of Vannevar Bush to President Roosevelt in 1942. It was dedicated to the development of three major fission processes and was responsible for the design of the atomic bomb, under the supervision of J. Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi in Los Alamos, New Mexico. In addition, the Project was involved in related intelligence gathering operations, diplomatic missions and the location of uranium ore. The orginal documents are held by the National Archives. Restricted items have not been microfilmed. The Guide locates documents as they are arranged on the reels and gives a detailed breakdown of the materials in the collection; there is no cumulative subject index. (McKeldin Reference QC773.ALM31).
  
  
• Title: NTIS (National Technical Information Service) Reports
  Author: National Technical Information Service
  Publication Date: 1964
  Format: Online
  Location: Network WWW
  Call No./URL/Item No.: http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbsel.cgi?username=mck&access=mck341&cat=aquatic
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: Technical reports of U.S. government-funded research. Strong in aerospace, energy and the environment. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Library (EPSL) Technical Reports Center at UMCP has many of these reports.
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• Title: Nuclear Nightmare Next Door
  Author: 48 Hours/Films for the Humanities
  Publication Date: 1988
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: RA569.N83 1988
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: 1980s
  Description: A segment from the television show 48 Hours. Through interviews with citizens, employees, and government investigators, shows the possible health dangers posed by nuclear plants to their employees and those who live near the plant.
  
  
• Title: On Nuclear Morality
  Author: Pacifica Radio
  Publication Date: 1962
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA au rl orig 351
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: Lord Bertrand Russell was a socialist in the days of the Fabians and visited the Soviet Union in the 1920's. He brings his philosophical genius to bear on the nuclear question, discussing his famous letter to Einstein and evaluating the Pugwash meetings of scientists from East and West. He says inventors share a special responsibility since they brought super weapons into existence, but blames politicians for the overkill crisis. Interview by Mike Tigar. This program is part of the Pacifica Radio Archives. This tape is recorded on two sides.
  
  
• Title: Russian Right Stuff: The Dark Side of the Moon
  Author: Coronet Film and Video
  Publication Date: 1991
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: TL789.8.S65R869 1991 and TL789.8.S65R869 1991 guide
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: Soviet Union
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: Discusses the successes and failures of the Soviet space program in the 1960s and 1970s and why the USSR lost the race to put a man on the moon.
  
  
• Title: Russian Science
  Author: NAEB
  Publication Date: 1960
  Format: Audio
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA 60-Sp. 2
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: Soviet Union
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: Russian Science. No other information available.
  
  
• Title: Science Citation Index database
  Author: ISI
  Publication Date: 1945
  Format: Online
  Location: Network WWW
  Call No./URL/Item No.: http://isiknowledge.com
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: Multidisciplinary database of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals in the sciences, from 1945 to the present.
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• Title: Space Race from Sputnik to Soyuz-Apollo
  Author: MPI Home Video
  Publication Date: 1990
  Format: Film
  Location: Nonprint Media
  Call No./URL/Item No.: TL789.8.S65S63 1990
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: Soviet Union
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: Produced by Soviet filmmakers under control and supervision of the Soviet government, these films may be considered work of Soviet propaganda.
  
  
• Title: Spaceflight: Thunder in the Skies
  Author: WETA Washington DC
  Publication Date: 2/7/
  Format: Film
  Location: Broadcast
  Call No./URL/Item No.: NPBA Program 994
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: Multiple
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: Documentary of man's achievement in space travel.
  
  
• Title: US Military Uses of Space, 1945-1991
  Author: ProQuest UMI/Digital National Security Archive
  Format: Online
  Location: Network WWW
  Call No./URL/Item No.: http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/msintro.htm
  Subject: Science & Technology
  GeographicArea: United States
  TimePeriod: Multiple Time Periods
  Description: "This collection of previously classified histories, program management directives, requirements studies, and other documents show the evolution of a variety of U.S. space programs - historically among the most highly classified documents of the U.S. government. Topics range from a 1951 report on using satellites for reconnaissance to a 1990 briefing paper on air support to Operation Desert Shield."
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