Title Effects of nuclear earth-penetrator and other weapons / Committee on the Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 134 pages) : illustrations (some color) 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 Summary 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject 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 underground environments. nuclear wars. HISTORY -- Military -- Other. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science. Nuclear warfare Nuclear arms control Nuclear nonproliferation Nuclear weapons Underground areas SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject United States Form Electronic book Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons. ISBN 9780309551069 0309551064 1280742224 9781280742224 9786610742226 6610742227

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