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Technical Articles

A. Technical Documents – WTC 1, 2 & 7 [1]

A.1 The Controlled Demolition Theory [1]

A.1.1 Richard Gage, AIA [1]
A.1.2 Paul Kayley, Firefighter [2]
A.1.3 Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth [3]
A.1.4 Angulo [4]
A.1.5 Basile [5]
A.1.6 Beck [6]
A.1.7 Brookman [7]
A.1.8 Chandler et al. [8]
A.1.9 Coste et al. [9]
A.1.10 Dewdney [10]
A.1.11 Douglas [11]
A.1.12 Eastman et al. [12]
A.1.13 Grabbe [13]
A.1.14 Griscom [14]
A.1.15 Harrit et al. [15]
A.1.16 Hulsey et al. [16]
A.1.17 Jones (Steven) et al. [17]
A.1.18 Korol et al. [18]
A.1.19 Kuttler [19]
A.1.20 Legge [20]
A.1.21 Lobdill [21]
A.1.22 McQueen et al. [22]
A.1.23 Pepper [23]
A.1.24 Ross et al. [24]
A.1.25 Rousseau [25]
A.1.26 Ryan [26]
A.1.27 Schneider [27]
A.1.28 Szamboti et al. [28]
A.1.29 Szuladzinski et al. [29]
A.1.30 Taylor [30]
A.1.31 Urich [31]
A.1.32 Wyndham et al. [32]
A.1.33 Others [33]

A.2 Challenges to NIST by AE911Truth [34]

A.3 Countering Disinformation, Samples [35]

A.3.1 Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth [35]
A.3.2 Taylor et al. [36]
A.3.3 Chandler [37]
A.3.4 Others [38]

B. Defenses of the Official WTC Collapse Narrative [39]

B.1 Bazant et al. — Mainstream Engineering Papers [39]

B.2 FEMA – Reports, May 2002 [40]

B.3 NIST – Reports [41]

B.3.1 Final Reports Released in September 2005 [41]
B.3.2 Final Reports Released in November 2008 [42]

B.4 Diversity of WTC Ignorance-Peddling [43]

B.4.1 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [43]
B.4.2 ADL —Anti-Defamation League [44]
B.4.3 American Society of Safety Engineers [45]
B.4.4 Europhysics News [46]
B.4.5 Greening et al. [47]
B.4.6 RG Lee Group [48]
B.4.7 Singleton [49]
B.4.8 Millette [50]
B.4.9 Wu et al. [51]
B.4.10 Anonymous [52]

C. Alternative WTC Destruction Theories [53]

C.1 The Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) Hypothesis [53]

C.1.1 Richard Gage, AIA et al. [53]
C.1.2 Gourley [54]
C.1.3 Jenkins et al. [55]
C.1.4 Legge [56]
C.1.5 Szamboti [57]

C.2 The Nuclear Energy Hypothesis [58]

C.2.1 AE911Truth [58]
C.2.2 Jones (Steven) [59]

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Articles

A.1.4 Angulo
Did World Trade Center Building 7 Really Collapse Due To an Office Fuel Load Fire? [71], International Fire & Safety Journal, October 2024
A.1.5 Basile
Mark Basile Progress Report [72], August 2014
A.1.7 Brookman
A.1.12 Eastman et al.
A.1.15 Harrit et al.
Niels Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven Jones, Kevin Ryan, Frank Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James Gourley, and Bradley Larsen, Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe [91], 2009
A.1.16 Hulsey et al.
Leroy Hulsey, Zhili Quan, and Feng Xiao, A Structural Reevaluation of the Collapse of World Trade Center 7 [92], March 2020
A.1.17 Jones (Steven) et al.
Steven Jones, Jeffrey Farrer, Gregory Jenkins, Frank Legge, James Gourley, Kevin Ryan, Daniel Farnsworth, and Crockett Grabbe, Extremely High Temperatures During the World Trade Center Destruction [98], January 2008
Steven Jones, Frank Legge, Kevin Ryan, Anthony Szamboti, and James Gourley, Fourteen Points of Agreement with Official Government Reports on the World Trade Center Destruction [99], 2008
Kevin Ryan, James Gourley and Steven Jones, Environmental anomalies at the World Trade Center: Evidence for Energetic Materials [100], August 2008
Steven Jones, Robert Korol, Anthony Szamboti, and Ted Walter, 15 Years Later: On the Physics of High-Rise Building Collapses [101], Europhysics News, July-August 2016
A.1.18 Korol et al.
Robert Korol, Paul Heerema, and Ken Sivakumaran, The Collapse of WTC 7: A Re-Examination of the “Simple Analysis” Approach [102], February 2016
A.1.29 Szuladzinski et al.
Gregory Szuladzinski, Anthony Szamboti, and Richard Johns, Some Misunderstandings Related to WTC Collapse Analysis [135], International Journal of Protective Structures, June 2013

A.2 Challenges to NIST by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth

Bob McIlvaine, Bill Doyle, Steven Jones, Kevin Ryan, Richard Gage, AIA, and Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice, request for correction submitted to NIST [150], April 2007
James Gourley, Bob McIlvaine, Steven Jones, Kevin Ryan, Richard Gage, AIA, and Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice, appeal letter to NIST [152], October 2007
NIST, David Chandler, James Gourley, Lorie van Auken, Steven Jones, Mindy Kleinberg, and others, Technical Briefing on Building 7, Transcript [153], August 2008
David Chandler, response to NIST [154], 2008
United States District Court for The District of Columbia, Case 1:21-cv-02365 Document 1 [AE911Truth at al.’s lawsuit against NIST for denying 2020 request for correction above] [163], September 2021
United States District Court for The District of Columbia, Case 1:21-cv-02365 Document 22 [dismissing AE911Truth at al.’s 2021 lawsuit above] [164], August 2022
A.3.4 By Others
Kevin Ryan, Manuel Garcia Sees Physics That Don’t Exist [180], December 2006
Francisco Gonzalez, Comments on Garcia’s Sept. 12, 2007, Article in Counterpunch [181], September 2007
Frank Legge, Frank Greening versus Isaac Newton [184], May 2009
David Proe and Ian Thomas, Center for Environmental Safety and Risk Engineering, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, Comments on NIST WTC7 Report [185], March 2012
John-Michael Talboo and Ziggi Zugam, 9/11: Explosive Material in the WTC Dust [186], February 2016
American Institute of Architects, Resolution 16-3, Investigation of the Total Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 [188] [voted down], 2016

B. Defenses of the Official WTC Collapse Narrative

B.1 Bazant et al. — Mainstream Engineering Papers

Zdenek Bazant and Yong Zhou, Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? —Simple Analysis [192], ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, September 2001
Zdenek Bazant and Mathieu Verdure, Mechanics of Progressive Collapse: Learning from World Trade Center and Building Demolitions [193], ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, March 2007
Zdenek Bazant, Jia-Liang Le, Frank Greening, and David Benson, What Did and Did not Cause Collapse of WTC Twin Towers in New York [194], ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, March 2008
Zdenek Bazant and Jia-Liang Le, Closure to “Mechanics of Progressive Collapse: Learning from World Trade Center and Building Demolitions,” [195] ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, October 2008
Jia-Liang Le and Zdenek Bazant, Why the Observed Motion History of World Trade Center Towers Is Smooth [196], ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, January 2011
Jia-Liang Le and Zdenek Bazant, Spontaneous Collapse Mechanism of World Trade Center Twin Towers and Progressive Collapse in General [198], ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, June 2022

B.3 NIST – Reports

B.3.1 Final Reports Released in September 2005

B.4 Diversity of WTC Ignorance-Peddling

B.4.1 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
B.4.2 ADL —Anti-Defamation League
B.4.3 American Society of Safety Engineers
Jeffrey Vincoli, Norman Black, and Stewart Burkhammer, SH&E at Ground Zero: A Firsthand Account from the Most Dangerous Workplace in the U.S. [276], May 2002

C. Alternative WTC Destruction Theories

C.1 The Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) Hypothesis

C.1.1 Richard Gage, AIA et al.

C.2 The Nuclear Energy Hypothesis

C.2.1 Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth