一份研究報告（25-35頁雙行間距報告）。研究報告必須基於原始研究，除了相關輔助資料之外，報告內容必須源自未被發表過的出處（檔案、訪查等等），
A research paper (25-35 double-spaced pages). Research papers should be based on original research, drawing on unpublished primary sources (archival, interviews, etc.) where appropriate, in addition to relevant secondary sources.

這門課程的近期研究題目包含如下：
Titles of recent research papers from the course include:

〈何謂軍事行動研究？英國與美國的科學手段與狂熱研究〉
"What is Operations Research? A Study of the Science of Method and Madness in Britain and America"

“檢視過往：Werner Von Braun德國V-2火箭計畫，與美國飛彈技術〉
"Overlooking the Past: Werner Von Braun, the German V-2 Rocket Program, and American Missile Technology"

〈深謀遠慮的專家：冷戰時期的人工智慧與專家系統〉
"Deep Experts: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems in the Cold War"

〈冷戰時期麻省理工學院的冶金學〉
"Metallurgy at MIT during the Cold War"

〈運行中的地球太空船：R. Buckminster Fuller的世界遊戲與冷戰時期的人性計畫〉
"Operating Spaceship Earth: R. Buckminster Fuller's World Game and Planning for a Cold War Humanity"

〈天體物理學與蘇聯的思想體系〉
"Astrophysics and Soviet Ideology"

〈隱密變數的解釋與David Bohm物理學家的兩種文化〉
"The Hidden Variables Interpretation and the two Cultures of Physicist David Bohm."