CLIMATOLOGICAL PROBABILITY OF FALLOUT FROM MULTIPLE NUCLEAR DETONATIONS

Abstract

A method of determining the climatological probability of fallout from multiple nuclear detonations is described. It is of interest to personnel and activities providing fallout information for use in planning defensive measures against fallout from nuclear weapons. A general procedure for a simple case of two detonations, based on the probability of two events occurring together, was developed by applying a vector regression equation to the effective wind parameters at the two points of detonation. This was followed by an extension of the development to include three or more detonations. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0272183

Entities

People

  • Thomas D. Potter

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Detonations
  • Equations
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Probability
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Combustion Dynamics and Shock Wave Physics.
  • Nuclear Civil Defense.
  • Regression Analysis.