Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons

Name: Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons
Author: National Research Council

Auteur: National Research Council

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: National Research Council Division On Engineering And Physical Sciences

Co-auteur: National Academy Of Sciences National Research Council Committee on the Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons

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Paperback
9780309096737
06 oktober 2005
146 pagina's

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Underground facilities are used extensively by many nations to conceal and protect strategic military functions and weapons' stockpiles. Because of their depth and hardened status, however, many of these strategic hard and deeply buried targets could only be put at risk by conventional or nuclear earth penetrating weapons (EPW). Recently, an engineering feasibility study, the robust nuclear earth penetrator program, was started by DOE and DOD to determine if a more effective EPW could be designed using major components of existing nuclear weapons. This activity has created some controversy about, among other things, the level of collateral damage that would ensue if such a weapon were used. To help clarify this issue, the Congress, in P.L. 107-314, directed the Secretary of Defense to request from the NRC a study of the anticipated health and environmental effects of nuclear earth-penetrators and other weapons and the effect of both conventional and nuclear weapons against the storage of biological and chemical weapons. This report provides the results of those analyses. Based on detailed numerical calculations, the report presents a series of findings comparing the effectiveness and expected collateral damage of nuclear EPW and surface nuclear weapons under a variety of conditions. Table of Contents Front Matter Summary 1 Introduction 2 Hard and Deeply Buried Targets 3 Earth-Penetrator Weapons 4 Effectiveness of Nuclear Weapons Against Hard and Deeply Buried Targets 5 Fallout and Tools for Calculating Effects of Release of Hazardous Materials 6 Human and Environmental Effects 7 Conventional Weapons 8 Uncertainty in Estimates of Effects 9 Conclusions Appendix A: Committee and Staff Appendix B: Agendas Appendix C: Equivalent Yield Factors for Energy Coupling Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations

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Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 06 oktober 2005
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Hoofdauteur: National Research Council
Tweede Auteur: Division On Engineering And Physical Sciences
Co Auteur: Committee on the Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons
Hoofduitgeverij: National Academies Press

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