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Mike Snyder is our historian and the contact point for documents, photos, written histories, etc.  Please make any submissions for the History areas to him at

 

Mike Snyder

58 West Crescent Drive

San Rafael, CA 94901

415-456-2876

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Title Author/Attribution
Keepers of the Dragon Henry B. Smith, Lt. Cmdr., USN (Ret)
First Nuclear Weapon Launch from an Aircraft Carrier LCDR Roy A. Norman, USN (ret)  
Nukuler Safti Michael D. Snyder, October 1997
Legend of Santa Barbara Unknown
Tom Best's Tribute to the "Keepers of the Dragon" LCDR Thomas Best, Sr.
NWTGP Command History Provided by Allen Autry
Earliest SWU Provided by Dave Fontana
NSWU History and Photos Provided by LCDR Roy Norman & Chuck Schoen
Trinity K. T. Bainbridge
Defense Special Weapons Agency - 1947-1997 DSWA 50th Anniversary Pamphlet
Effects of Nuclear Weapons - 1977 Edition Very large pdf file (over 600 pages/almost 70 MB) Samuel Glasstone

SWOP 40-54 General Maintenance Procedures

through Change 11 - March 1969

  
Life In W-Division Questionnaire Chris Edward - National Park Service
30th Anniversary of NAD Oahu (NAD Oahu Detonator) A. Douglas Weaver
1996 News article about disestablishment of WT rating "...one of the Navy's most specialized ratings) MT1(SS) Ryan Moody
The History of Nuclear Weapon Safety Devices Sandia National Laboratories
Trinity Site 1945-1995 Official site brochure
NSWUA (NNWA) - the early days Danny Rider
History of Sandia Tech Area II Sandia National Labs
First Deployment for Jack Hayes Jack Hayes (e-mail to Mike Snyder)
Terkel Interviews Tibbets in 2002 Studs Terkel interview of Paul Tibbets
Lt. Donald S. Lindberg Certificates, etc. provided by Paul Roales
NWSU 802 Orders March 1950 and commentary Paul Roales & Michael Snyder
Nuclear Safety Standards Provided by Gary Spevak
2011 The USA Year in Review CWO4 Robert O. King

 

 

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