History | NNWA SUPPLY ANNEX

Tracy McDaniels is our historian and the contact point for documents, photos, written histories, etc. Please make any submissions for History areas to him at historian@navynucweps.com

Tracy McDaniels

1900 Syramore Dr Killeen, TX 76543

If submissions are to be published on the website – e-mail the image to the webmaster and, if you wish, you can send the hard copy or item to the Historian.

Title	Author/Attribution/Source
Keepers of the Dragon	Henry B. Smith, Lt. Cmdr., USN (Ret)
First Nuclear Weapon Launch from an Aircraft Carrier	LCDR Roy A. Norman, USN (ret)
Nukuler Safti	Michael D. Snyder, October 1997
Legend of Santa Barbara	Unknown
Tom Best’s Tribute to the “Keepers of the Dragon”	LCDR Thomas Best, Sr.
NWTGP Command History	Allen Autry
Earliest SWU	Dave Fontana
NSWU History and Photos	LCDR Roy Norman & Chuck Schoen
Trinity	K. T. Bainbridge
Defense Special Weapons Agency – 1947-1997	DSWA 50th Anniversary Pamphlet
Effects of Nuclear Weapons – 1977 Edition Very large pdf file (over 600 pages/almost 70 MB)	Samuel Glasstone
SWOP 35-51 – General Instructions for Cleaning, Preservation, Packaging and Identification Marking through Change 6 – 7 June 72	Tom Trimber
SWOP 40-54 General Maintenance Procedures through Change 11 – 28 March 1969	Provided by Ray Margeson
SWOP 40-54 General Maintenance Procedures through Change 16 – 6 February 1973	Provided by Tom Trimber
Life In W-Division Questionnaire	Chris Edward – National Park Service
30th Anniversary of NAD Oahu (NAD Oahu Detonator)	A. Douglas Weaver
1996 News article about disestablishment of WT rating “…one of the Navy’s most specialized ratings)	MT1(SS) Ryan Moody
The History of Nuclear Weapon Safety Devices	Sandia National Laboratories
Trinity Site 1945-1995	Official site brochure
NSWUA (NNWA) – the early days	Danny Rider
History of Sandia Tech Area II	Sandia National Labs
First Deployment for Jack Hayes	Jack Hayes (e-mail to Mike Snyder)
Terkel Interviews Tibbets in 2002	Studs Terkel interview of Paul Tibbets
Lt. Donald S. Lindberg	Certificates, etc. provided by Paul Roales
NWSU 802 Orders March 1950 and commentary	Paul Roales & Michael Snyder
Nuclear Safety Standards	Provided by Gary Spevak
2011 The USA Year in Review	CWO4 Robert O. King
Occupational Standards Gunner’s Mate Technician NAVPERS 18068-D	Bill Borgelt
Advancement Handbook for Petty Officers (Weapons Technician – eff 1 January 1993) – 39 pages	Bill Borgelt
1964 Atomic Weapons Training Group Welcome Brochure – 40 pages may download slowly	Jim Samsell via Jim Zielsdorf
U. S. Deployed Nuclear/Thermonuclear Weapons	Don Boyer
Personal memories of the earliest SWU!	Dave Fontana
Patrol Insignia for Regulus Veterans	Jim Hollingsworth
Japan Under the Nuclear Umbrella	The Nautilus Institute (provided by Chuck Weber)
CPO Standards – humorous	Mike McCaffrey, Admiral (retired USN)
Military history/experiences of CDR William H. (Harry) Austin	Introduction by Michael Snyder
NWTGP Nuclear Weapons Chronology (through 1974)	Ray C., Margeson
Information on “Q” Clearance	Jim Hamann
Course schedules from NWTGP in’74 and ’75 (Copies of Mimeos)	Patricia Fite
World’s Largest Nuclear Explosions	Dave Schiffman
Two Waikele Tales from mid ’60s	Mike Snyder
NW Program History possibly by Tom Best	Mike Snyder
1956 NW Movements – CAPT Harold Barr and LCDR Tom Perkins	Mike Snyder
The Sounds of Silence Project concerning our exposure to radiation	Rick Workman
PACT Act Update May 2024	Chuck Weber
Harry Austin Memories	Mike Snyder