The Effects of Nuclear War (open access)

The Effects of Nuclear War

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) examining "the full range of effects that nuclear war would have on civilians: direct effects from blast and radiation; and indirect effects from economic, social, and political disruption" (Foreward).
Date: May 1979
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Criminal justice: new technologies and the constitution: special report (open access)

Criminal justice: new technologies and the constitution: special report

This report describes the new technologies being used in criminal justice and, as in all of the reports of this series, addresses that delicate balance to be maintained between the national interest and individual rights.
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strategic Materials: Technologies to Reduce U.S. Import Vulnerability (open access)

Strategic Materials: Technologies to Reduce U.S. Import Vulnerability

A study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "assesses the technical alternatives to continued reliance on southern Africa and the U.S.S.R. for strategic metals" (p. iii).
Date: May 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology and the American Economic Transition: Choices for the Future (open access)

Technology and the American Economic Transition: Choices for the Future

The report highlights strategic choices available to Americans as we negotiate a period of major transformation. The choices we make will have profound consequences for the quality of work and the amenities available to Americans and for America’s role of leadership in the free world.
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library