INIS, the International Nuclear Information System, was established in 1970 in response to the IAEA‘s mandate “… to foster the exchange of scientific and technical information on peaceful uses of atomic energy”.

INIS processes most of the world’s scientific and technical literature on a wide range of subjects from nuclear engineering, safeguards and non-proliferation to applications in agriculture and health.

Access: INIS (International Nuclear Information System) Database

The Appropriate Technology Library is 150,000 pages of full text and graphics from 1050 books covering all areas of village-level and do-it-yourself technology–all on 27 CD-ROM’s or 4 DVD’s. The AT Library gives you all the benefits of a comprehensive appropriate technology library in the space it takes to store a shoe box. The AT Library gives you the knowledge to solve real-world problems such as; harvesting clean drinking water, making tools, growing your own crops, building and maintaining an irrigation system, preserving crops, reforesting a denuded watershed, starting a small fish hatchery, building a small-scale hydropower scheme, building and maintaining pumps, treating human and animal waste, utilizing solar energy, improving rural cookstove efficiency, constructing energy efficient structures, caring for the sick, non-formal education, preparing for a natural disaster.

It is now available on DVD through Hagerty Reserve Media section at the Circulation Desk of our Library.

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AT library [videorecording] / Village Earth.

For more information, please refer to: The Appropriate Technology Library

The Energy Citations Database (ECD) provides free access to over two million science research citations from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular updates. There are over 140,000 electronic documents, primarily from 1994 forward, available via the database. Citations and documents are made publicly available by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). ECD includes scientific and technical research results in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes bibliographic citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents. ECD was created and developed by DOE’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information.

Search the Energy Citation Database:

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With the new Google Patent Search tool, one can search across more than 7 million patents. Each Google Patent Search result represents an individual patent. Click on the patent image to access full patent. It displays results based on their relevance to the specific search terms entered. One can also see number of details about each patent in the list of results. These include: patent title, U.S. patent number, filing date, assignee name, patent snippet, patent summary, claims, and drawings. ‘Search within this patent’ option is available to search the text of an individual patent for specific keywords and phrases. it also lists other patents that were cited by the patent described on the page and lists other patents that reference the patent described on the page.

Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO – from patents issued in the 1790s through those issued in the middle of 2006. It does not currently include patent applications, international patents, or U.S. patents issued over the last few months, but we look forward to expanding our coverage in the future

See About Google Patents for more information.

See Google Launches Google Patents, Full-Text US Patent Searching for comparison between the USPTO search and the Google search of the number of documents that show up for each year in a ten year period for the use of the word. See also Resourceshelf site to learn more about what Google Patents does not cover.

According to ‘LANL: History’ web site, ‘The partial answer to the labor shortage at Los Alamos came from an Army program that identified enlisted personnel with technical skills, such as machining, or who had some science education beyond high school. Those identified were organized into the Special Engineer Detachment, or SED.’ The Manhattan Project Heritage Preservation Association, Inc. (MPHPA) has a mission to ‘Preserving, Exhibiting, Interpreting and Teaching the History of the Manhattan Project’ . It also provides access to the directory listing of ‘Special Engineer Detachment – “Scientists in Uniform”‘.

Excerpt: “An idea gaining currency these days is that the United States needs a new Manhattan Project to solve our nation’s energy problems. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., is just the latest to propose a massive federal government effort to develop alternatives to petroleum and cut U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. He suggested it pursue these goals with the urgency of the World War II era project that rushed to develop the atomic bomb.”

According to you, what are some other ways that the U.S. needs to implement to tackle energy problems?

Read the full article at: New Manhattan Project? Waste of energy

Using the Atomic Bomb Resource Guide and using one of the databases listed under Finding Articles — History & Politics, try to find an article about the film ‘Dr. Strangelove: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb’.
For example, I used JSTOR to locate an article from the American Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 5, Special Issue: Film and American Studies, (Winter, 1979), pp. 697-717 titled Dr. Strangelove (1964): Nightmare Comedy and the Ideology of Liberal Consensus . List the article and the name of the database you used to find this article.

Honored with the prestigious 1998 George Foster Peabody Award, CNN’s landmark COLD WAR series is the first major documentary on the subject.

The concept was proposed by CNN founder Ted Turner, the man celebrated worldwide for his revolutionary approach to news and information technology. In 1994, Turner approached Britain’s Jeremy Isaacs — already famous for his documentary series, “The World at War” — to lead the project. Isaacs then assembled an acclaimed team of historians, writers and producers, and asked the actor Kenneth Branagh to provide the series’ narration.

See also: Cold War Experience: The Bomb

Sean McCallum’s (UNIV241 student) recommendation DOES THE U.S. NEED NEW NUCLEAR WEAPONS? is a short essay written by Frank N. Von Hippel from Princeton University dealing with whether the U.S. needs to reevaluate it nuclear arsenal to include low yield weapons and the the infamous “bunker -buster” missile. Von Hippel seems to be of the opinion that such weapons are lessening the credibility of the old model of deterrence and legitimizing theatrical (or battlefield) use.

This collection focuses on The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb. It includes documents totaling almost 600 pages, covering the years 1945-1964. Supporting materials include an online version of “Truman and the Bomb: A Documentary History,” edited by Robert H. Ferrell. See also Documents,, Photographs, and Oral histories for additional information.