Nuclear Damage to Point Target.

Abstract

This report deals with the calculation of damage to dimensionally small battlefield items. This damage is caused by nuclear weapons deployed against other targets that may or may not be collocated with the small battlefield items. The equations that relate the damage to the weapon type, its location and location error, the location of the item, and its vulnerability parameters are complex in form, and require the analyst to resort to machine calculations or to extensive sets of charts, tables, or graphs. We created nomograms and a slide rule to simplify and speed these calculations. These tools also reduce analyst-induced errors. They speed the calculation of the effects of nuclear weapons, thereby speeding the process of identifying means to harden equipment (used by friendly troops) against the effects of such nuclear weapons or to exploit the vulnerability of equipment (used by unfriendly troops) to the effects of such nuclear weapons. The report consists of two parts. The first part presents the unclassified results; the second (a supplement published under separate cover) presents the classified results. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA067184

Entities

People

  • C. Stuart Kelley
  • John H. Wasilik
  • Stacey E. Gehman
  • William D. Scharf

Organizations

  • Harry Diamond Laboratories

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Blast Waves
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Doctrine
  • Dynamic Pressure
  • Ground Zero
  • Height Of Burst
  • Navy
  • Nuclear Bombs
  • Nuclear Warfare
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Radiation
  • Warfare
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Geodesy
  • Strategic Security Studies