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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1983 Stated First Edition First Printing. Tigh binding Clean Pages only minor shelf wear. Cool Cold War Book Please Zoom Photos.

paperback, Zustand: Good, National Strategy Information Center, NY, c.1983, 6"x9", staple-bound wraps, 65pp., G $.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Previous owner's name inked out in upper corner of half-title page, else a clean, solid copy in wraps with unmarked text. xix, 59pp.

Zustand: good. 65, wraps, illus., covers somewhat worn and soiled. Preface by Gerald L. Steibel. 20 Questions & Answers on the Most Urgent Issues of Our Time.

Wraps. Zustand: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xix, [1], 59, [1] pages. Illustrations (color). Strategic Defense Glossary. For Further Reading. Introduction by Frank R. Barnett. Erasure residue on half-title page. Cover has some wear and soiling. Frank R. Barnett was the founder of the National Strategy Information Center. Mr. Barnett's interest in national security studies grew from a belief that questions of war and peace should not be the left to Federal officials and the military alone. He worked to develop educational programs in conjunction with the American Bar Association, universities, organized labor and business. He founded the center in 1962. Its goal was to bring together leaders of public opinion and provide information on national defense and international security. Known for its anti-Communist and pro-military stance, the center continued to monitor the military equations after the demise of the Soviet Bloc. It also conducted research on American intelligence policy and sponsored unclassified workshops with intelligence specialists. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles). The concept was first announced publicly by President Ronald Reagan on 23 March 1983. Reagan was a vocal critic of the doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD), which he described as a "suicide pact", and he called upon the scientists and engineers of the United States to develop a system that would render nuclear weapons obsolete. A wide array of advanced weapon concepts, including lasers, particle beam weapons and ground- and space-based missile systems were studied, along with various sensor, command and control, and high-performance computer systems that would be needed to control a system consisting of hundreds of combat centers and satellites spanning the entire globe. Follow-on efforts and spin-offs continue to this day.

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Single sheet, 38x53 cm (15 x 20 3/4 inches), printed on one side only. Map of Bodie with eleven illustrations from photographs along the top and sides, with brief text and key to locations and points of interest printed below the map. The photographs show Bodie through the years, up to 1956. The map, oriented with north toward the lower left, locates principal mines and shafts, as well as mills, commercial buildings and other structures. Now a ghost town east of the Sierra Nevada in Mono County, California, Bodie began as a mining camp of little note following the discovery of gold in 1859 by a group of prospectors, including W. S. Bodey. In 1876, the Standard Company discovered a profitable deposit of gold-bearing ore, which transformed Bodie from an isolated mining camp comprising a few prospectors and company employees to a Wild West boomtown. By 1879, Bodie had a population of approximately 7,00010,000 people and around 2,000 buildings. The town went into decline in the subsequent decades and came to be described as a "ghost town" by 1915. By 1920, Bodie's population was recorded by the US Federal Census at a total of 120 people. The town was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and in 1962 the California state legislature authorized creation of Bodie State Historic Park. A total of 170 buildings remained. Today, Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survived, with about 110 structures still standing, including one of many once operational gold mills. This 1956 tourist map, produced five years prior to the town being designated a National Historic Landmark, is the earliest known map of Bodie as a ghost town. It is preceded by rare 1878 and 1880 maps of gold claims in the Bodie mining district, the equally rare 1879 birdseye view of the town, and the 1890 Sanborn-Perris fire insurance map of the town. Emil William Billeb (1885-1974) was a photographer and miner during the heyday of the Great Basin mining camps. His life and experiences in the mining camps of Nevada and eastern California after 1905 are well told in his MINING CAMP DAYS (1968), augmented with a multitude of previously unpublished photographs. Emil, who immigrated from Germany to America in 1892, married Jessie D. Cain, the daughter of Bodie pioneer James Stuart Cain (1853-1938). The Cain family eventually became Bodie's principal property owner. Tiny closed tear in top edge margin, a nearly fine copy. Professionally matted. OCLC reports one copy, at the University of California, Berkeley. (#174142).

Single sheet, 38x53 cm (15 x 20 3/4 inches), printed on one side only. Map of Bodie with eleven illustrations from photographs along the top and sides, with brief text and key to locations and points of interest printed below the map. The photographs show Bodie through the years, up to 1956. The map, oriented with north toward the lower left, locates principal mines and shafts, as well as mills, commercial buildings and other structures. Now a ghost town east of the Sierra Nevada in Mono County, California, Bodie began as a mining camp of little note following the discovery of gold in 1859 by a group of prospectors, including W. S. Bodey. In 1876, the Standard Company discovered a profitable deposit of gold-bearing ore, which transformed Bodie from an isolated mining camp comprising a few prospectors and company employees to a Wild West boomtown. By 1879, Bodie had a population of approximately 7,00010,000 people and around 2,000 buildings. The town went into decline in the subsequent decades and came to be described as a "ghost town" by 1915. By 1920, Bodie's population was recorded by the US Federal Census at a total of 120 people. The town was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and in 1962 the California state legislature authorized creation of Bodie State Historic Park. A total of 170 buildings remained. Today, Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survived, with about 110 structures still standing, including one of many once operational gold mills. This 1956 tourist map, produced five years prior to the town being designated a National Historic Landmark, is the earliest known map of Bodie as a ghost town. It is preceded by rare 1878 and 1880 maps of gold claims in the Bodie mining district, the equally rare 1879 birdseye view of the town, and the 1890 Sanborn-Perris fire insurance map of the town. Emil William Billeb (1885-1974) was a photographer and miner during the heyday of the Great Basin mining camps. His life and experiences in the mining camps of Nevada and eastern California after 1905 are well told in his MINING CAMP DAYS (1968), augmented with a multitude of previously unpublished photographs. Emil, who immigrated from Germany to America in 1892, married Jessie D. Cain, the daughter of Bodie pioneer James Stuart Cain (1853-1938). The Cain family eventually became Bodie's principal property owner. Short tear at left edge intruding into a photo professionally mended, a very good copy. Professionally matted and shrink wrapped on acid free foamcore. OCLC reports one copy, at the University of California, Berkeley. (#166441).