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Book Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Reports

Download or read book Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Reports written by United States. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 3384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications

Download or read book Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book USDA Forest Service General Technical Report PSW

Download or read book USDA Forest Service General Technical Report PSW written by Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Berkeley, Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Federal Power Commission Reports

Download or read book Federal Power Commission Reports written by United States. Federal Power Commission and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Federal Register

Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1979-10 with total page 2288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Whole World on Fire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynn Eden
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780801435782
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Whole World on Fire written by Lynn Eden and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whole World on Fire focuses on a technical riddle wrapped in an organizational mystery: How and why, for more than half a century, did the U.S. government fail to predict nuclear fire damage as it drew up plans to fight strategic nuclear war?U.S. bombing in World War II caused massive fire damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but later war plans took account only of damage from blast; they completely ignored damage from atomic firestorms. Recently a small group of researchers has shown that for modern nuclear weapons the destructiveness and lethality of nuclear mass fire often--and predictably--greatly exceeds that of nuclear blast. This has major implications for defense policy: the U.S. government has underestimated the damage caused by nuclear weapons, Lynn Eden finds, and built far more warheads, and far more destructive warheads, than it needed for the Pentagon's war-planning purposes. How could this have happened? The answer lies in how organizations frame the problems they try to solve. In a narrative grounded in organization theory, science and technology studies, and primary historical sources (including declassified documents and interviews), Eden explains how the U.S. Air Force's doctrine of precision bombing led to the development of very good predictions of nuclear blast--a significant achievement--but for many years to no development of organizational knowledge about nuclear fire. Expert communities outside the military reinforced this disparity in organizational capability to predict blast damage but not fire damage. Yet some innovation occurred, and predictions of fire damage were nearly incorporated into nuclear war planning in the early 1990s. The author explains how such a dramatic change almost happened, and why it did not. Whole World on Fire shows how well-funded and highly professional organizations, by focusing on what they do well and systematically excluding what they don't do well, may build a poor representation of the world--a self-reinforcing fallacy that can have serious consequences. In a sweeping conclusion, Eden shows the implications of the analysis for understanding such things as the sinking of the Titanic, the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, and the poor fireproofing in the World Trade Center.

Book Projects in the Industrial Pollution Control Division  December  1974

Download or read book Projects in the Industrial Pollution Control Division December 1974 written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Development and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fifty Years of Forestry Research

Download or read book Fifty Years of Forestry Research written by Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Berkeley, Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Opinions and Decisions of the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin

Download or read book Opinions and Decisions of the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin written by Public Service Commission of Wisconsin and published by . This book was released on with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rehabilitation Record

Download or read book Rehabilitation Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications Quarterly List

Download or read book Publications Quarterly List written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications   Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station

Download or read book Publications Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station written by Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Berkeley, Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recreation Opportunities at Hydroelectric Projects Licensed by the Federal Power Commission

Download or read book Recreation Opportunities at Hydroelectric Projects Licensed by the Federal Power Commission written by United States. Federal Power Commission and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indian Land Consolidation Act Amendments  and to Permit the Leasing of Oil and Gas Rights on Navajo Allotted Lands

Download or read book Indian Land Consolidation Act Amendments and to Permit the Leasing of Oil and Gas Rights on Navajo Allotted Lands written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book EDA Directory of Approved Projects

Download or read book EDA Directory of Approved Projects written by United States. Economic Development Administration and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Accelerated Public Works Program  Directory of Approved Projects as of

Download or read book Accelerated Public Works Program Directory of Approved Projects as of written by United States. Economic Development Administration and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Catalogue  United States Public Documents

Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: