EVALUATION OF CIVIL DEFENSE OPERATIONAL CONCEPTS

Abstract

The concepts of civil defense operational planning for the transattack period on the basis of expected operational situations or contingencies are reviewed. Nine situations based on combinations of selected levels of fallout intensities and weapon-caused fires are considered, including one situation involving no weapons effects. The required emergency operations attendant to each situation are identified. The geographical area for which operational contingency plans would be developed would be such that the operational situation would be the same throughout the area. Accordingly, statistical measures were developed as the basis for selection of the unit areas which show the fallout intensity gradients as a function of a range of weapon yields and probable wind conditions, expected thermal ignition ranges, and overpressure scaling functions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0691134

Entities

People

  • C. Alexander Kamradt
  • Richard Laurino

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Blast
  • Boundaries
  • Civil Defense
  • Command And Control
  • Countermeasures
  • Defense Systems
  • Doctrine
  • Dose Rate
  • Emergencies
  • Environment
  • Measurement
  • Overpressure
  • Surface Burst
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapons
  • Weapons Effects

Readers

  • Nuclear Civil Defense.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Theoretical Analysis.