Vulnerability Characteristics of Emergency Operating Centers (EOC'S) in Blast-Risk Areas.

Abstract

Estimates were obtained of the total cost and the average unit cost for reducing the vulnerability of all Emergency Operating Centers (EOCs) to nuclear-weapon effects except for radioactive fallout and EMP. The reduction of vulnerability was interpreted as an upgrading of all EOCs located in 'high risk' areas (i.e., areas with expected air-blast overpressures equal to or exceeding 2 psi) to functionally resist the nuclear-weapon effects corresponding to a 10-psi air-blast overpressure caused by a 1-megaton surface burst. Two sets of total cost/average unit cost data were generated. The first set provides costs for upgrading belowground and partially exposed EOCs and for relocating totally aboveground EOCs to upgraded belowground spaces (i.e., basements of existing other buildings or belowground areas of future, conventionally constructed buildings). The second set of costs reflects upgrading of belowground and partially exposed EOCs and new construction of separate, belowground, hardened EOCs to replace existing totally aboveground EOCs. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA035868

Entities

People

  • Curtis Lang

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Basements
  • Blast
  • Civil Defense
  • Construction
  • Cost Estimates
  • Engineering
  • Hazards
  • Network Protocols
  • Nuclear Fallout
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Overpressure
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Risk
  • Statistical Inference
  • Statistical Sampling
  • Surface Burst
  • Vulnerability

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Nuclear Civil Defense.

Technology Areas

  • Space