A DAMAGE-LIMITING SHELTER-ALLOCATION STRATEGY

Abstract

A damage-limiting strategy for allocating blast and fallout shelter protection is proposed. The features which combine to make this strategy unique are its relatively fine-grained local orientation and its ability to meet a survival percentage criterion irrespective of the actual ground zero within the area considered. The strategy proposed here tailors shelter postures to the conditions and needs of individual cities or local areas. This local approach could be used to develop a national shelter program evaluating the needs of many cities by serial application of the shelter allocation model. Shelter postures produced under this strategy consider all potential ground zeros within the protected area as part of the shelter allocation process; thus, fatalities from immediate blast effects and fallout are limited to a stipulated level, irrespective of where an assumed weapon might be delivered within a target city. Costs are minimized in the shelter allocation process by following three specific decision rules described.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0615779

Entities

People

  • Grace J. Kelleher

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blast
  • Civil Defense
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Defense Systems
  • Fallout Shelters
  • Fatalities
  • Ground Zero
  • Linear Programming
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Overpressure
  • Pilot Studies
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Surface Burst
  • Targets
  • United States

Readers

  • Economics
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design