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200 00$aEffects of nuclear earth-penetrator and other weapons /$fCommittee on the Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aWashington, D.C. $cNational Academies Press$dc2005
215   $a1 online resource (146 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references.
327   $a""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Hard and Deeply Buried Targets""; ""3 Earth-Penetrator Weapons""; ""4 Effectiveness of Nuclear Weapons Against Hard and Deeply Buried Targets""; ""5 Fallout and Tools for Calculating Effects of Release of Hazardous Materials""; ""6 Human and Environmental Effects""; ""7 Conventional Weapons""; ""8 Uncertainty in Estimates of Effects""; ""9 Conclusions""; ""Appendixes""; ""A Committee and Staff""; ""B Agendas""; ""C Equivalent Yield Factors for Energy Coupling""
327   $a""D Acronyms and Abbreviations""
330   $aUnderground facilities are used extensively by many nations to conceal and protect strategic military functions and weapons' stockpiles. Because of their depth and hardened status, however, many of these strategic hard and deeply buried targets could only be put at risk by conventional or nuclear earth penetrating weapons (EPW). Recently, an engineering feasibility study, the robust nuclear earth penetrator program, was started by DOE and DOD to determine if a more effective EPW could be designed using major components of existing nuclear weapons. This activity has created some controversy about, among other things, the level of collateral damage that would ensue if such a weapon were used. To help clarify this issue, the Congress, in P.L. 107-314, directed the Secretary of Defense to request from the NRC a study of the anticipated health and environmental effects of nuclear earth-penetrators and other weapons and the effect of both conventional and nuclear weapons against the storage of biological and chemical weapons. This report provides the results of those analyses. Based on detailed numerical calculations, the report presents a series of findings comparing the effectiveness and expected collateral damage of nuclear EPW and surface nuclear weapons under a variety of conditions.
606   $aNuclear arms control$zUnited States
606   $aNuclear nonproliferation
606   $aNuclear weapons$zUnited States
606   $aUnderground areas
615  0$aNuclear arms control
615  0$aNuclear nonproliferation.
615  0$aNuclear weapons
615  0$aUnderground areas.
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712 02$aNational Research Council (U.S.).$bCommittee on the Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons.
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906   $aBOOK
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996   $aEffects of nuclear earth-penetrator and other weapons$94368409
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