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Procuring Low-Energy Design and Consulting Services

Description: Dozens of Federal agencies design, construct, renovate, and maintain thousands of offices, warehouses, and dwelling units in a wide range of climates and conditions. As the world's largest consumer of energy (1.2 quadrillion British thermal units [Btu] delivered to the point of use in fiscal year 1994), the Federal government has a tremendous opportunity to save vast amounts of money each year in energy costs. Executive Order 12902, which was passed in 1994, challenges Federal building managers… more
Date: March 2, 1999
Creator: Prowler, D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Igniting the Light Elements: The Los Alamos Thermonuclear Weapon Project, 1942-1952

Description: The American system of nuclear weapons research and development was conceived and developed not as a result of technological determinism, but by a number of individual architects who promoted the growth of this large technologically-based complex. While some of the technological artifacts of this system, such as the fission weapons used in World War II, have been the subject of many historical studies, their technical successors--fusion (or hydrogen) devices--are representative of the largely u… more
Date: July 1, 1999
Creator: Fitzpatrick, Anne C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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