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. ' 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. WNRC UNCLASSIFIED 5 © ee investigaticns, their data, and conclusions, and serve as a basis for