UNCLASSIFIED
BIBLIOGRAPHY, WITH ABSTRACTS, OF
REPOPTS OF NUCLEAR DEFENSE LABORATORY AND ITS PREDECESSORS (U)
I. (U) ZvRoDUCTION.
BEST AVAILABLE COPY
This bibliography presents abstracts of all research reports
published prior to October 1961 by the U. S. Army Chemical Corps Nuclear
Defense Laboratory and its predecessors, reports prepared by NDL personnel
and published by other agencies, and reports resulting from research con-
ducted under contract to this Laboratory.
It supersedes CRLR 413, Bibliography
with Abstracts of Reports of Radiological Division, Chemical and Radiological
Laboratories (U), and CWL SP 3-5, Bibliography with Abstracts of Radiological
Division Reports from May 1954 to May 1958 (Uv).
Tre name of the sponsoring organization has had several changes over
the years which is reflected in the report numbering system.
Prior to 1951,
reports were sponsored by the Radiological Division of Technical Command and
are numbered in the TCR (Technical Command Report) or TCIR (Technical Command
Interim Report) series.
In 1951 the name of the parent organization was
changed frcm Technical Command to Chemical and Radiological Laboratories, and
until 1956 all reports were of the CRLIR (Interim) and CRLR series.
In
December of 1952 the designation of CRLIR reports was abandoned and a sub-
designation was used thereafter to indicate the type of report, whether formal,
interim, final, engineering, foreign material or special.
These subdesignations
are used on all CRLR reports after December 1952.
In 1956 the name of the
sponsoring organization was changed from Chemical and Radiological Laboratories
to Chemical Warfare Laboratories.
Reports of the Radiological Division during
the period from 1956 to September 1960 are numbered in the CWLR series.
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In
September 1360 the Radiological Division of the U. S. Army Chemical Warfare
Laboratories became a separate organization and changed its name to U. S.
Army Chemical Corps Nuclear Defense Laboratory.
Reports published after
September 1950 have numbers designating technical reports of the NDL-TR
series and technical memoranda of the NDL-TM series.
Formal reports are written to form permanent records of technical
executive action.
These reports have a relatively wide distribution outside
the Chemica Corps.
Special reports are useful for the prompt transmission
of urgently needed information.
Their conclusions are tentative and subject
to revision, and the projects under which the work was done are continuing.
Technical reports are intended primarily for scientific use.
These reports
provide a permanent record of research and development investigations and a
source of ir*ormation for management of the research and development program.
Technical memoranda are intended primarily as operational aids and are
designed for limited dissemination of technical information for temporary
use.
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