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

A.1 The Controlled Demolition Theory [2]

A.1.1 P S Kayley [3]
A.1.2 Architects and Engineers [4]
A.1.3 Mark Basile [5]
A.1.4 Charles Beck [6]
A.1.5 Ronald Brookman [7]
A.1.6 David Chandler et al. [8]
A.1.7 Wayne Coste et al. [9]
A.1.8 A. K. Dewdney [10]
A.1.9 Eric Douglas [11]
A.1.10 Timothy Eastman and Jonathan Cole [12]
A.1.11 Crockett Grabbe [13]
A.1.12 David Griscom [14]
A.1.13 Niels Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven Jones, Kevin Ryan, Frank Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James Gourley, and Bradley Larsen [15]
A.1.14 Leroy Hulsey, Zhili Quan, and Feng Xiao [16]
A.1.15 Steven Jones et al. [17]
A.1.16 Robert Korol et al. [18]
A.1.17 Kenneth Kuttler [19]
A.1.18 Frank Legge [20]
A.1.19 Jerry Lobdill [21]
A.1.20 Graeme McQueen et al. [22]
A.1.21 William Pepper [23]
A.1.22 Gordon Ross et al. [24]
A.1.23 Andre Rousseau [25]
A.1.24 Kevin Ryan [26]
A.1.25 Ansgar Schneider [27]
A.1.26 Tony Szamboti et al. [28]
A.1.27 Gregory Szuladzinski et al. [29]
A.1.28 Adam Taylor [30]
A.1.29 Gregory Urich [31]
A.1.30 John Wyndham et al. [32]
A.1.31 Others [33]

A.2 Challenges to NIST by AE911Truth [34]

A.3 Countering Disinformation, Samples [35]

A.3.1 By AE911Truth [36]
A.3.2 By Adam Taylor et al. [37]
A.3.3 By David Chandler [38]
A.3.4 By Others [39]

B. Defenses of the Official WTC Collapse Narrative [40]

B.1 Zdenek Bazant et al. — Mainstream Engineering Papers [41]

B.2 FEMA – Reports, May 2002 [42]

B.3 NIST – Reports [43]

B.3.1 Final Reports Released in September 2005 [44]
B.3.2 Final Reports Released in November 2008 [45]

B.4 Diversity of WTC Ignorance-Peddling [46]

B.4.1 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States [47]
B.4.2 ADL —Anti-Defamation League [48]
B.4.3 American Society of Safety Engineers [49]
B.4.4 Europhysics News [50]
B.4.5 Frank Greening et al. [51]
B.4.6 RG Lee Group [52]
B.4.7 Stephanie Singleton [53]
B.4.8 James Millette [54]
B.4.9 Maoxin Wu, Ronald Gordon, Robin Herbert, Maria Padilla, Jacqueline Moline, David Mendelson, Virginia Litle, William Travis, and Joan Gil [55]
B.4.10 Anonymous [56]

C. Alternative WTC Destruction Theories [57]

A. Technical Documents – WTC 1, 2 & 7

A.1 The Controlled Demolition Theory

A.1.1 P S Kayley
Sudden Building Collapse: An Evaluation of a New Risk in Operational Fire-fighting: An Independent Analysis [58], July 2016
A.1.2 Architects and Engineers
Ted Walter, Beyond Misinformation: What Science Says about the Destruction of World Trade Center Buildings 1, 2, and 7 [59], 2015
Richard Gage, AIA, Evidence for the Explosive Demolition of WTC Building 7 on 9/11 [60], September 2009
Billions of Previously Molten Iron Spheres in WTC Dust, Reveal Use of Thermitic Materials [61], August 2010
Witnesses of Molten Steel at Ground Zero [62], September 2016
World Trade Center Physics: Why Constant Acceleration Disproves Progressive Collapse [63], September 2016
A.1.3 Mark Basile
Mark Basile Progress Report [64], August 2014
A.1.4 Charles Beck
Mathematical Models of Progressive Collapse and the Question of How Did the World Trade Center Perish [65], October 2007
A.1.5 Ronald Brookman
The NIST Analyses: A Close Look at WTC 7 [66], March 2010
A Discussion of “Analysis of Structural Response of WTC 7 to Fire and Sequential Failures Leading to Collapse” by Therese P. McAllister, Robert MacNeill, Omer Erbay, Andrew Sarawit, Mehdi Zarghamee, Steven Kirkpatrick and John Gross, Journal of Structural Engineering, January 2012, Vol. 138, No. 1 [67], October 2012
A.1.6 David Chandler et al.
Destruction of the World Trade Center North Tower and Fundamental Physics: Downward Acceleration of WTC 1 [68], February 2010
Destruction of the World Trade Center North Tower and Fundamental Physics: Downward Acceleration of WTC 1 (Interpreted for a less technical audience) [69]
Our Most Solid Evidence for the Use of Explosives in the Destruction of the World Trade Center [70]
David Chandler, Ted Walter, and Tony Szamboti, The Instantaneous Free Fall of World Trade Center Building 7 and NIST’s Attempt to Hide It [71], June 2023
A.1.7 Wayne Coste et al.
Wayne Coste and Michael Smith, Neglecting Peer Review: A Case Study of Engineering Ethics and the Official Reports about the Destruction of World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC7) on 9/11 [72], May 2014
John Wyndham, Wayne Coste, and Michael Smith, Ethics and the Official Reports about the Destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers (WTC1 and WTC2) on 9/11: A Case Study [73], 2014
Investigating the Mechanics of Destruction at the Twin Towers on 9/11: The Case for Propelled Demolition [74], March 2020
“Surfing” the Big Wave on 9/11: Analysis of a Large Perimeter Column Wall Section of the South Tower [75], September 2020
A.1.8 A. K. Dewdney
Fourier-Based Calculations of Temperatures of Structural Steel in An Environment of Burning Jet Fuel and Office Furnishings [76]
A.1.9 Eric Douglas
The NIST WTC Investigation: How Real Was the Simulation? [77], December 2006
A.1.10 Timothy Eastman and Jonathan Cole
WTC Destruction: An Analysis of Peer Reviewed Technical Literature, 2001 — 2012 [78], April 2013
A.1.11 Crockett Grabbe
Direct Evidence for Explosions: Flying Projectiles and Widespread Impact Damage [79], April 2007
Discussion of “Progressive Collapse of the World Trade Center: A Simple Analysis” by K.A. Seffen [80], February 2008
Response to NIST on Energy and Momentum [81]
A.1.12 David Griscom
“Hand Waving” the Physics of 9/11 [82]
A.1.13 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 [83], 2009
A.1.14 Leroy Hulsey, Zhili Quan, and Feng Xiao
A Structural Reevaluation of the Collapse of World Trade Center 7 [84], March 2020
A.1.15 Steven Jones et al.
Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Completely Collapse? [85], September 2006
An Open Letter to Dr. Steven Jones by James Bennett, with Replies by Steven Jones [86], April 2007
Revisiting 9/11/2001 —Applying the Scientific Method [87], May 2007
Reply to Stephen Phillips (“A physicist critiques Steven Jones’ New Paper”, May 21, 2007) [88], 2007
Greg Palast apologizes to Dr. Steven Jones: “An Apology and Hope for Reasoned Discourse,” [89] 2007
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 [90], 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 [91], 2008
Kevin Ryan, James Gourley and Steven Jones, Environmental anomalies at the World Trade Center: Evidence for Energetic Materials [92], August 2008
Steven Jones, Robert Korol, Anthony Szamboti, and Ted Walter, 15 Years Later: On the Physics of High-Rise Building Collapses [93], Europhysics News, July-August 2016
A.1.16 Robert Korol et al.
Robert Korol, Paul Heerema, and Ken Sivakumaran, The Collapse of WTC 7: A Re-Examination of the “Simple Analysis” Approach [94], February 2016
Steven Jones, Robert Korol, Anthony Szamboti, and Ted Walter, 15 Years Later: On the Physics of High-Rise Building Collapses [93], Europhysics News, July-August 2016
A.1.17 Kenneth Kuttler
WTC 7: A short Computation [95], June 2006
Estimates for Time to Collapse of WTC1 [96]
A.1.18 Frank Legge
9/11 – Evidence for Controlled Demolition: A Short List of Observations [97], June 2006
NIST Data Disproves Collapse Theories Based on Fire [98], August 2006
9/11 – The Twin Towers and Common Sense [99]
9/11 – Acceleration Study Proves Explosive Demolition [100], November 2006
Conspiracy Theories, Myths, Skepticism, and 9/11: their Impact on Democracy [101], September 2007
Frank Legge and Tony Szamboti, 9/11 and the Twin Towers: Sudden Collapse Initiation was Impossible [102], December 2007
WTC 1 Collapse – What if the Columns Miss? [103], March 2008
9/11 – Proof of Explosive Demolition without Calculations [104], March 2008
9/11 and Probability Theory [105], June 2008
Controlled Demolition at the WTC: A Historical Examination of the Case [106], May 2009
Anonymous and Frank Legge, Falsifiability and the NIST WTC Report: A Study in Theoretical Adequacy [107], 2010
A.1.19 Jerry Lobdill
Molten What? [108], March 2007
Some Physical Chemistry Aspects of Thermite, Thermate, Iron-Aluminum-Rich Microspheres, the Eutectic, and the Iron-Sulfur System as Applied to the Demise of Three World Trade Center Buildings on 9/11/2001 [109], June 2007
A.1.20 Graeme McQueen et al.
118 Witnesses: The Firefighters’ Testimony to Explosions in the Twin Towers [110], August 2006
156 Eyewitnesses Whose Statements are Suggestive of Explosions in the Twin Towers [111], August 2006
Sonic Booms in the Collapse of the Twin Towers? [112], June 2007
Waiting for Seven: WTC 7 Collapse Warnings in the FDNY Oral Histories [113], January 2008
Graeme MacQueen and Tony Szamboti, The Missing Jolt: A Simple Refutation of the NIST-Bazant Collapse Hypothesis [114], April 2009
Did the Earth Shake Before the South Tower Hit the Ground? [115], July 2009
A.1.21 William Pepper
The NIST Report on the Collapse of WTC Building 7 Challenged by 2,100 Architects and Engineers [116], December 2013
A.1.22 Gordon Ross et al.
Momentum Transfer Analysis of the Collapse of the Upper Storeys of WTC 1 [117], June 2006
Reply to Dr. Greening [118], August 2006
Craig Furlong and Gordon Ross, Seismic Proof – 9/11 Was an Inside Job (Updated Version II) [119], September 2006
NIST and Dr. Bazant – A Simultaneous Failure [120], May 2007
Response to “Anonymous”: Partial Logic – Partial Answer [121]
A.1.23 Andre Rousseau
Were Explosives the Source of the Seismic Signals Emitted from New York on September 11, 2001? [122], November 2012
A.1.24 Kevin Ryan
High Velocity Bursts of Debris from Point-Like Sources in the WTC Towers [123], June 2007
The Top Ten Connections Between NIST and Nano-Thermites [124], July 2008
A.1.25 Ansgar Schneider
The Late Jolt: Re-Examining the World Trade Center Catastrophe [125], October 2019
A.1.26 Tony Szamboti et al.
Frank Legge and Tony Szamboti, 9/11 and the Twin Towers: Sudden Collapse Initiation was Impossible [102], December 2007
The Sustainability of the Controlled Demolition Hypothesis for the Destruction of the Twin Towers [126], February 2008
Graeme MacQueen and Tony Szamboti, The Missing Jolt: A Simple Refutation of the NIST-Bazant Collapse Hypothesis [114], April 2009
Gregory Szuladzinski, Anthony Szamboti, and Richard Johns, Some Misunderstandings Related to WTC Collapse Analysis, International Journal of Protective Structures [127], June 2013
Tony Szamboti and Richard Johns, ASCE Journals Refuse to Correct Fraudulent Paper They Published On WTC Collapses [128], September 2014
A.1.27 Gregory Szuladzinski et al.
Temporal Considerations in Collapse of WTC Towers [129], February 2012
Gregory Szuladzinski, Anthony Szamboti, and Richard Johns, Some Misunderstandings Related to WTC Collapse Analysis [127], International Journal of Protective Structures, June 2013
A.1.28 Adam Taylor
Other Collapses in Perspective: An Examination of Steel Structures Collapsing due to Fire and their Relation to the WTC [130], April 2013
Clarifying the Question of Collapse Times on 9/11 [131], August 2021
Does Molten Aluminum Glow? [132], September 2013
A.1.29 Gregory Urich
Analysis of Mass and Potential Energy in the World Trade Center Twin Towers [133]
Analysis of the Mass and Potential Energy of World Trade Center Tower 1 [134], March 2007
A.1.30 John Wyndham et al.
John Wyndham, Wayne Coste, and Michael Smith, Ethics and the Official Reports about the Destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers (WTC1 and WTC2) on 9/11: A Case Study [73], 2014
Peer Review in Controversial Topics —A Case Study of 9/11 [135], June 2017
A.1.31 Others
Robert Moore, Statement Regarding Thermite: Part 1 [136], January 2007
Brian Vasquez, Glowing Aluminum Disinformation? [137], February 2007
Wes Lifferth, A Description of Molten Aluminum Poured onto Rusty Steel [138], March 2007
Terry Morrone, Proof that the Thermal and Gravitational Energy Available Were Insufficient to Melt Steel in the Twin Towers and 7 World Trade Center on 9/11/01 [139], April 2007
Anon, Non-animated Visualization Aids to Assist in Understanding the Demolitions of the World Trade Center Twin Towers [140], November 2007
Scott Jones, An Independent Analysis of NIST’s Scientific Methods and Assumptions [141]

A.2 Challenges to NIST by AE911Truth

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 [142], April 2007
NIST, response to 2007 request for correction above [143], September 2007
James Gourley, Bob McIlvaine, Steven Jones, Kevin Ryan, Richard Gage, AIA, and Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice, appeal letter to NIST [144], October 2007
NIST, David Chandler, James Gourley, Lorie van Auken, Steven Jones, Mindy Kleinberg, and others, Technical Briefing on Building 7, Transcript [145], August 2008
David Chandler, response to NIST [146], 2008
NIST, Finding Regarding Public Safety Information [147], July 2009
William Pepper, The NIST Report on the Collapse of WTC Building 7 Challenged by 2,100 Architects and Engineers [148], December 2013
90+ signers, Request for Correction Under the Data Quality Act to NIST’s Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 [149], April 2020
NIST, denial of 2020 request for correction above [150], August 2020
90+ signers, Appeal of the Initial Decision Regarding the Request for Correction to NIST’s Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 [151], September 2020
90+ signers, Supplemental Data Related to the Request for Correction to NIST’s Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 [152], December 2020
AE911Truth, Request for Issuance of Final Decision, and Alternative Notice of Intent to Sue [153], June 2021
NIST, Response to Appeal of NIST’s Initial Decision under the Information Quality Standards Guidelines [154], June 2021
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] [155], 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] [156], August 2022

A.3 Countering Disinformation, Samples

A.3.1 By AE911Truth
Focus on WTC 1, 2, and 7: 29 Structural and Civil Engineers Cite Evidence for Controlled Demolition of All 3 WTC High-Rises on 9/11 [157], June 2009
Adam Taylor, What About the Planes That Slammed into The Twin Towers? Wouldn’t They Have Disturbed the Demolition Devices? [158], January 2012
Extremely High Temperatures and Molten Metal Evidence at WTC [159]
Adam Taylor, What Is Nanothermite? Could It Have Been Used to Demolish the WTC Skyscrapers? [160], June 2012
Areas of Specific Concern in the NIST WTC Reports [161], April 2015
Why the AIA Should Support a New Investigation into the Complete Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 [162], 2015
Robert Korol and Anthony Szamboti, A Response from the ‘Lay Critics’ Regarding ‘Mechanics-Based Mathematical Studies Proving Spontaneity of Post-Impact WTC Towers Collapse’ [unpublished by Europhysics] [163], March 2017
A.3.2 By Adam Taylor et al.
A Critical Review of the “9/11 Mysteries Viewer’s Guide,” [164] June 2011
A Response to Chris Mohr’s Respectful Rebuttal of Richard Gage’s 9/11 Blueprint for Truth [165], September 2014
Observations on NIST’s WTC Fireproofing Loss and Collapse Scenario for the WTC Towers [166], September 2020
John-Michael Talboo and Adam Taylor, Debunking 9/11 Debunking: On WTC’s Design to Withstand 707 Impact [167], October 2020
Collapse or Explosion? A Discussion of the WTC, “Sounds of Explosions” Issue [168], January 2021
A.3.3 By David Chandler
Freefall and Building 7 on 9/11 [169]
Greening vs. Chandler and Newton’s Laws [170], 2009
Response to Dave Thomas [171]
A.3.4 By Others
Kevin Ryan, Manuel Garcia Sees Physics That Don’t Exist [172], December 2006
Francisco Gonzalez, Comments on Garcia’s Sept. 12, 2007, Article in Counterpunch [173], September 2007
Frank Legge, 9/11 – A Letter to a Die-Hard Supporter of the Official Explanation [174], October 2007
Andrea Dreger, Sources Related to Exceptionally High Temperatures, and/or to Persistent Heat at Ground Zero; Disinformation Regarding the Phenomena of “Molten Steel”/Exceptionally High Temperatures/Persistent Heat at Ground Zero; Pre-Collapse Pressure Pulses [175], July 2008
Frank Legge, Frank Greening versus Isaac Newton [176], May 2009
David Proe and Ian Thomas, Center for Environmental Safety and Risk Engineering, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, Comments on NIST WTC7 Report [177], March 2012
John-Michael Talboo and Ziggi Zugam, 9/11: Explosive Material in the WTC Dust [178], February 2016
Anthony Szamboti, Open Letter to Prof. Bazant [requesting correction of four papers published by the Journal of Engineering Mechanics] [179], June 2016
P S Kayley, Sudden Building Collapse: An Evaluation of a New Risk in Operational Fire-fighting: An Independent Analysis [58], July 2016
American Institute of Architects, Resolution 16-3, Investigation of the Total Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 [180] [voted down], 2016
Mick Harrison, Preliminary Legal Assessment, for Public Consumption, of NIST’s Final Decision on Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth’s WTC 7 Request for Correction [181], July 2021
Anthony Szamboti and Richard Johns, Request for further action in the matter of Tony Szamboti and Richard Johns’ Ethics Complaint against ASCE members [and former editors of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics] Roberto Ballarini and Kaspar Willam [over discussing Le and Bazant’s 2011 paper] [182], May 2022
Anthony Szamboti and Richard Johns, Appeal of Decision [by the Journal of Engineering Mechanics’ editor Franz-Josef Ulm to uphold the non-publication of a discussion of Le and Bazant’s 2011 paper] [183], June 2022

B. Defenses of the Official WTC Collapse Narrative

B.1 Zdenek Bazant et al. — Mainstream Engineering Papers

Zdenek Bazant and Yong Zhou, Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? —Simple Analysis [184], ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, September 2001
Zdenek Bazant and Mathieu Verdure, Mechanics of Progressive Collapse: Learning from World Trade Center and Building Demolitions [185], 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 [186], 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,” [187] 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 [188], ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, January 2011
Jia-Liang Le and Zdenek Bazant, Mechanics of Collapse of WTC Towers Clarified by Recent Column Buckling Tests of Korol and Sivakumaran [189], June 2022
Jia-Liang Le and Zdenek Bazant, Spontaneous Collapse Mechanism of World Trade Center Twin Towers and Progressive Collapse in General [190], ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, June 2022

B.2 FEMA – Reports, May 2002

World Trade Center Building Performance Study: Title Pages, Report Credits, Table of Contents [191]

Executive Summary [192]

1 Introduction [193]

2 WTC 1 and WTC 2 [194]

3 WTC 3 [195]

4 WTC 4, 5, and 6 [196]

5 WTC 7 [197]

6 Bankers Trust Building [198]

7 Peripheral Buildings [199]

8 Observations, Findings, and Recommendations [200]

A Overview of Fire Protection in Buildings [201]

B Structural Steel and Steel Connections [202]

C Limited Metallurgical Examination [203]

D WTC Steel Data Collection [204]

E Aircraft Information [205]

F Structural Engineers Emergency Response Plan [206]

G Acknowledgments [207]

H Acronyms and Abbreviations [208]

I Metric Conversions [209]

B.3 NIST – Reports

B.3.1 Final Reports Released in September 2005
NIST NCSTAR 1: Final Report of the National Construction Safety Team on the Collapses of the World Trade Center Towers [210]
NIST NCSTAR 1-1: Design, Construction, and Maintenance of Structural and Life Safety Systems [211]
NIST NCSTAR 1-1A: Design and Construction of Structural Systems [212]
NIST NCSTAR 1-1A: Appendixes A-G [213]
NIST NCSTAR 1-1A: Appendixes C-G [214]
NIST NCSTAR 1-1B: Comparison of Building Code Structural Requirements [215]
NIST NCSTAR 1-1C: Maintenance and Modifications to Structural Systems [216]
NIST NCSTAR 1-1C: Appendixes [217]
NIST NCSTAR 1-1D: Fire Protection and Life Safety Provisions Applied to the Design and Construction of World Trade Center 1, 2, and 7 and Post-Construction Provisions Applied after Occupancy [218]
NIST NCSTAR 1-1E: Comparison of Codes, Standards, and Practices in Use at the Time of the Design and Construction of World Trade Center 1, 2, and 7 [219]
NIST NCSTAR 1-1F: Comparison of the 1968 and Current (2003) New York City Building Code Provisions [220]
NIST NCSTAR 1-1G: Amendments to the Fire Protection and Life Safety Provisions of the New York City Building Code by Local Laws Adopted while World Trade Center 1, 2, and 7 Were in Use [221]
NIST NCSTAR 1-1H: Post-Construction Modification to Fire Protection and Life Safety Systems of the World Trade Center Towers [222]
NIST NCSTAR 1-1I: Post-Construction Modifications to Fire Protection, Life Safety, and Structural Systems of World Trade Center 7 [223]
NIST NCSTAR 1-1J: Documentation of the Fuel System for Emergency Power in World Trade Center 7 [224]
NIST NCSTAR 1-2: Baseline Structural Performance and Aircraft Impact Damage Analysis of the World Trade Center Towers [225]
NIST NCSTAR 1-2A: Reference Structural Models and Baseline Performance Analysis of the World Trade Center Towers [226]
NIST NCSTAR 1-2B: Analysis of Aircraft Impacts into the World Trade Center Towers (Chapters 1-8) [227]
NIST NCSTAR 1-2B: Chapters 9-11 [228]
NIST NCSTAR 1-2B: Chapters 9-11 and Appendix [229], scanned
NIST NCSTAR 1-3: Mechanical and Metallurgical Analysis of Structural Steel [230]
NIST NCSTAR 1-3A: Contemporaneous Structural Steel Specifications [231]
NIST NCSTAR 1-3B: Steel Inventory and Identification [232]
NIST NCSTAR 1-3C: Damage and Failure Modes of Structural Steel Components [233]
NIST NCSTAR 1-3C: Appendixes [234]
NIST NCSTAR 1-3D: Mechanical Properties of Structural Steels [235]
NIST NCSTAR 1-3E: Physical Properties of Structural Steels [236]
NIST NCSTAR 1-4: Active Fire Protection Systems [237]
NIST NCSTAR 1-4A: Post-Construction Fires Prior to September 11, 2001 [238]
NIST NCSTAR 1-4B: Fire Suppression Systems [239]
NIST NCSTAR 1-4C: Fire Alarm Systems [240]
NIST NCSTAR 1-4D: Smoke Management Systems [241]
NIST NCSTAR 1-5: Reconstruction of the Fires in the World Trade Center Towers [242]
NIST NCSTAR 1-5A: Visual Evidence, Damage Estimates, and Timeline Analysis (Chapters 1-8) [243]
NIST NCSTAR 1-5A: Chapter 9-Appendix C [244]
NIST NCSTAR 1-5A: Appendixes D-G [245]
NIST NCSTAR 1-5A: Appendixes H-M [246]
NIST NCSTAR 1-5B: Experiments and Modeling of Structural Steel Elements Exposed to Fire [247]
NIST NCSTAR 1-5C: Fire Tests of Single Office Workstations [248]
NIST NCSTAR 1-5D: Reaction of Ceiling Tile Systems to Shocks [249]
NIST NCSTAR 1-5E: Experiments and Modeling of Multiple Workstations Burning in a Compartment [250]
NIST NCSTAR 1-5F: Computer Simulation of the Fires in the World Trade Center Towers [251]
NIST NCSTAR 1-5G: Fire Structure Interface and Thermal Response of the World Trade Center Towers [252]
NIST NCSTAR 1-6: Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse Sequence of the World Trade Center Towers [253]
NIST NCSTAR 1-6A: Passive Fire Protection [254]
NIST NCSTAR 1-6B: Fire Resistance Tests of the Floor Truss Systems [255]
NIST NCSTAR 1-6C: Component, Connection, and Subsystem Structural Analysis [256]
NIST NCSTAR 1-6D: Global Structural Analysis of the Response of the World Trade Center Towers to Impact Damage and Fire [257]
NIST NCSTAR 1-7: Occupant Behavior, Egress, and Emergency Communication [258]
NIST NCSTAR 1-7A: Analysis of Published Accounts of the World Trade Center Evacuation [259]
NIST NCSTAR 1-7B: Technical Documentation for Survey Administration: Questionnaires, Interviews, and Focus Groups [260]
NIST NCSTAR 1-8: The Emergency Response Operations [261]
NIST NCSTAR 1-8: Appendixes A-L [262]

B.3.2 Final Reports Released in November 2008
NIST NCSTAR 1A: Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 [263] *
NIST NCSTAR 1-9: Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse Sequence of World Trade Center Building 7, Volumes 1 and 2 [264] *
NIST NCSTAR 1-9A: Global Structural Analysis of the Response of World Trade Center Building 7 to Fires and Debris Impact Damage [265] *
* Errata for NIST NCSTAR 1A, NIST NCSTAR 1-9, and NIST NCSTAR 1-9A, Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster: Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse Sequence of World Trade Center Building 7 (January 2009, April 2012, and June 2012) [266]

B.4 Diversity of WTC Ignorance-Peddling

B.4.1 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
The 9/11 Commission Report [267], July 2004
B.4.2 ADL —Anti-Defamation League
Decade of Deceit: Anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories 10 Years Later [268], August 2011
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. [269], May 2002
B.4.4 Europhysics News
Letters to the Editors, September-December 2016, pp. 43-44 [270]
Jia-Liang Le and Zdenek Bazant, Mechanics-Based Mathematical Studies Proving Spontaneity of Post-Impact WTC Towers Collapse, January-February 2017, pp. 18-23 [271]
B.4.5 Frank Greening et al.
Energy Transfer in the WTC Collapse [272], February 2006
Aluminum and the World Trade Center Disaster [273], 2006
To Whom It May Concern [274], August 2006
Frank Greening’s Challenge to David Chandler [275], 2009
Greening and Greening, Characterization of a World Trade Center Dust Sample [276], 2017
Written Communication to John Wyndham [277], 2017
B.4.6 RG Lee Group
Damage Assessment, 130 Liberty Street Property: WTC Dust Signature Report, Composition and Morphology, Summary Report [278], December 2003
Damage Assessment, 130 Liberty Street Property: Expert Report, WTC Dust Signature [279], May 2004
B.4.7 Stephanie Singleton
The Truth About 9/11 Truth Movement: A Folkloristic Study [280], October 2017
B.4.8 James Millette
Progress Report on the Analysis of Red/Gray Chips in WTC Dust [281], February 2012
B.4.9 Maoxin Wu, Ronald Gordon, Robin Herbert, Maria Padilla, Jacqueline Moline, David Mendelson, Virginia Litle, William Travis, and Joan Gil
Case Report: Lung Disease in World Trade Center Responders Exposed to Dust and Smoke: Carbon Nanotubes Found in the Lungs of World Trade Center Patients and Dust Samples [282], April 2010
B.4.10 Anonymous
An Attack on Gordon Ross’ Work on the “Pile Driver” Theory [283]

C. Alternative WTC Destruction Theories

Richard Gage, with Jonathan Cole and Gregg Roberts, The Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) Hypothesis [284]
AE911Truth, FAQ #15: The Nuclear Blast Hypothesis [285]
Arabesque, “Thermite Hypothesis” versus “Controlled Demolition Hypothesis”: a response to “The Scientific Method Applied to the Thermite Hypothesis” [286]
Greg Jenkins, Arabesque, A Brief Analysis of Dr. Judy Wood’s Request for Correction to NIST: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly [287]
Judy Wood, Greg Jenkins, Arabesque, Reply to “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” and Response [288]
Gregory Jenkins, Introduction To an Interview with Dr. Judy Wood Conducted at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on January 10, 2007, Regarding the Use of Directed Energy Beams in The Demolition of The World Trade Center Towers [289], February 2007
Greg Jenkins, Arabesque, Interview with Dr. Judy Wood and Dr. Greg Jenkins [290]
Greg Jenkins, Arabesque, Reply to “Greg Jenkins interview Judy Wood: An Interview and Analysis” by Judy Wood, and Response [291]
Frank Legge, A study of some issues raised in a paper by Wood and Reynolds [292], January 2007
Gregory Jenkins, Matt Sullivan, The Overwhelming Implausibility of Using Directed Energy Beams to Demolish the World Trade Center Towers [293], April 2007
James Gourley, Scientific Critique of Judy Wood’s Paper “The Star Wars Beam Weapon” [294]
Gregory Jenkins, Solving The Great Steel Caper: DEW-Demolition Contrary Evidence [295], 2007
Gregory Jenkins, Supplemental: Miscellaneous Topics, DEW-Demolition Contrary Evidence [296], 2007
Steven Jones, Hard Evidence Repudiates the Hypothesis that Mini-Nukes Were Used on the WTC Towers [297], January 2007