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Underground 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 nucle...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Nuclear nonproliferation.
Nuclear arms control > United States.
Underground areas.
Nuclear weapons > United States.
Nuclear warfare.
Nuclear Warfare
Hazardous Substances > adverse effects
Radioactive Fallout > adverse effects
Non-prolifération nucléaire.
Armes nucléaires > Contrôle > États-Unis.
Zones souterraines.
Guerre nucléaire.
underground environments.
nuclear wars.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Nuclear warfare
Nuclear arms control
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons
Underground areas
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • FrontMatter
  • 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
  • D Acronyms and Abbreviations.

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