Los Alamos, New Mexico was the birthplace of the atomic bomb and, arguably, the government-funded "Big Science" that has been such a
defining feature of post-WW II fundamental and directed research. In the earliest years of the 21st century, Los Alamos National Laboratory placed
online a large collection of technical documents with historical and ongoing relevance to its original Manhattan Project mission and all the missions
that followed. The document collection included declassified documents written by such notables as Hans Bethe, John von Neumann, Robert Oppenheimer,
and Edward Teller. It also contained a large number of never-classified documents, US patents, conference presentations, environmental documents, and
much more. The collection was called the Library Without Walls.
In 2002, the walls went back up, in what was surely an overreaction to 9/11/2001. Online access to the documents was terminated, and even when
visiting Los Alamos in person, members of the public could no longer view declassified/unclassified documents from the laboratory's collection.
Fortunately, Gregory Walker and Carey Sublette, two nuclear technology enthusiasts/researchers, managed to download most of the Library Without Walls
documents before the change. For some time, the Federation of American Scientists has been hosting a <a
href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/">small portion</a> of the collection as part of its Project on Government Secrecy,
but the bulk of the two-DVD document collection remained unavailable. I was able to privately contact Gregory Walker two months ago and obtain the
full collection. With his encouragement, I have applied optimization to the PDF files to enable them to fit in the hosting space available here. Now,
for the first time since 2002, most of the Library Without Walls is again unwalled.
Here's just a small number of titles from the 5000+ documents now available, to indicate the scope of the mad and not-so-mad science and policy
that LANL has been involved with:
<a href="http://www.sciencemadness.org/lanl1_a/lib-www/la-pubs/00375150.pdf">Cray-1 evaluation : final report</A>
<a href="http://www.sciencemadness.org/lanl1_a/lib-www/la-pubs/00405613.pdf">Electronics of the Van de Graaff</A>
<a href="http://www.sciencemadness.org/lanl1_a/lib-www/pubs/00285911.pdf">An Historical Perspective: From Turing and von Neumann to
the Present</a>
<a href="http://www.sciencemadness.org/lanl2_a/lib-www/la-pubs/00103973.pdf">The Status of nuclear power plants in the People's
Republic of China</a>
<a href="http://www.sciencemadness.org/lanl2_a/lib-www/la-pubs/00397448.pdf">Low-temperature equation of state for metals</a>
<a href="http://www.sciencemadness.org/lanl2_a/lib-www/la-pubs/00368612.pdf">Improvements in hot-wire electroexplosive
devices</a>
<a href="http://www.sciencemadness.org/lanl2_a/lib-www/la-pubs/00368099.pdf">Laser fusion for laymen</a>
<a href="http://www.sciencemadness.org/lanl2_a/lib-www/la-pubs/00205428.pdf">Making progress in cleaning up DOE's weapons complex
: issues of organization and management</a>The_Davster - 27-7-2005 at 23:06
Wow, thanks for bringing this out of obscurity for us all. Truely a jem that continues to set Sciencemadness apart from the rest.
[Edited on 28-7-2005 by rogue chemist]denatured - 28-7-2005 at 09:06
Quote:
Here's just a small number of titles from the 5000+ documents now available,
Polverone , i cannot handle that ... this is just too muchFleaker - 28-7-2005 at 09:12
Good reads!
Thanks for the links in this thread, and thanks for making it accessible on the main page.
How to downloade Los Alamos
Lambda - 28-7-2005 at 10:22
Alnokta, please install flashget and chose PDF in your downloade menu. All downloads will then precede automatically. If you use Mozilla Firefox, then
install the "Flashgot" plugin. "Flashgot" may sound confusing, for your will be using "Flashget" as main program. If
anybody has trouble with "Flashget", then I will uploade a "Cracked" version 1.65 without any advertising. I am not shore, but I
think "Flashget" has spyware, please refere to the "Mozilla" website for information concerning this. You may also use
"HTTrack", wich is free !, and is very good: http://www.httrack.com/
Good luck to you all !
Polverone, what a fantastic find !
Thank you very much for the time and effort you have spent on making this information available to the community !neutrino - 28-7-2005 at 16:58
I think that too many people downloading at once would quickly eat up out monthly bandwidth. Perhaps a bit torrent or maybe gmail could be used
instead? Two DVDs would be ~10GB, or a couple of gmail accounts.
For future reference, wget can't be beat, especially on linux systems.Lambda - 28-7-2005 at 17:08
Something has gone wrong Neutrino. The links seem to be dead, or removed. Yes, a bit torrent or maybe an eMule hash file may work out fine. DVD 1, was
only 1.73 GB, DVD 2, I can only dream of.
Has anybody managed to get hold of these titles ?:
LASL Explosive Property Data (21MB)
LASL Phermex Data, Volume 1 (26MB)
LASL Phermex Data, Volume 2 (20MB)
LASL Phermex Data, Volume 3 (17MB)
Los Alamos Explosives Performance Data (23MB)
[Edited on 29-7-2005 by Lambda]neutrino - 28-7-2005 at 17:19
They still work for me.IrC - 28-7-2005 at 18:27
I see some broken links. (Los Alamos Science -- magazine) The second one, on plutonium science I would really like. Will these be up in the future?
The requested URL /lanl1_a/lib-www/pubs/number2-2.htm was not found on this server.
The requested URL /lanl1_a/lib-www/pubs/00416608.pdf was not found on this server
The requested URL /lanl1_a/lib-www/pubs/number10.htm was not found on this server
The requested URL /lanl1_a/lib-www/pubs/0028989.pdf was not found on this server.
The requested URL /lanl1_a/lib-www/pubs/00326918.pdf was not found on this server. http://www.sciencemadness.org/lanl1_a/lib-www/pubs/number14.... (all missing)
The requested URL /lanl1_a/lib-www/pubs/number18.htm was not found on this server.
The requested URL /lanl1_a/lib-www/pubs/number16.htm was not found on this server. http://www.sciencemadness.org/lanl1_a/LANL_Beginnings_of_Era... (all pdf's on page)
These are some links, haven't gone through it all yet. Just FYI as sometimes it helps to know where bad links are in a large site.Lambda - 28-7-2005 at 18:35
I am having quit a few problems down here IrC, but I at last managed to get hold of:
LASL Explosive Property Data (21MB)
LASL Phermex Data, Volume 1 (26MB)
LASL Phermex Data, Volume 2 (20MB)
LASL Phermex Data, Volume 3 (17MB)
Los Alamos Explosives Performance Data (23MB)
And only 110 mb of DVD 2.
Plutonium science works fine for me IrC.
Too many people are downloading at once I suppose.
[Edited on 29-7-2005 by Lambda]Polverone - 28-7-2005 at 19:44
There are a number of broken links. I did say that Walker and Sublette managed to get "most of" the documents that were available. I
don't know if the ones that are currently missing have been omitted by accident from the DVD collections or if they were never downloaded to
begin with. I will make inquiries about this later.
I haven't done a comprehensive automatic or manual check of the documents to make sure that all links point to files and that all files are
pointed to by links. In fact, for this very reason I named the indices "mainindex.html" instead of index.html, so that you can browse
directly to (for example) http://www.sciencemadness.org/lanl1_a/ and start your downloading program there. I think that should let you get all files, even those that may
not be linked to in the main index pages.
On the server, the files of lanl1_a occupy 1,985,671,168 bytes. The files of lanl2_a occupy 2,056,220,672 bytes. Note that the files
formerly needed two DVDs to store, but do not any more because of the optimizations I have applied. The PDF sizes can be decreased
somewhat by gzipping or zipping them, but I decided that it was not practical to store them on the server that way. The convenience of uncompressed
PDF files outweighs the slight bloat of uncompressed PDF files.
I have a cron job running that will disable access to the LANL files if bandwidth use for the month is over 200 GB. It will also disable access to the
Library files if bandwidth for the month is over 220 GB. This is to make sure that the forum remains accessible even if people are doing very heavy
downloading. We have 240 GB bandwidth available per month, total. For July there's about 150 GB left so I imagine that the bandwidth protection
won't need to kick in.
Thanks go to every member who has contributed financially to this site. Without the contributions, I would not have purchased the account upgrades
that made such a large project possible.
I will upload the files to axehandle's FTP site as zip files for those who want everything.
Edit: the files are now uploaded to axehandle's in /upload. 1,675,755,520 bytes for lanl1_a.zip,
1,806,155,776 bytes for lanl2_a.zip.
[Edited on 7-29-2005 by Polverone]denatured - 1-8-2005 at 15:51
Hey
Thank you Lambda for your help , but that isn't what i meant ... i just meant that this info is great and making it online gave a lot of pain to
Polverone.
I was just talking about myself , am i going to read those 8 GB of books i already have?!!!
I am not thinking now of downloading all of them now but may be another time for the sake of backing-up.
