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ESTABLISH DESIGN CRITERIA FOR, AN OPTICAL PROBE TO MEASURE THE DUST LOFTED BY THE SHOCK WAVE DURING A NUCLEAR BLAST WAVE SIMULATION. DUST DENSITY IS DETERMINED FROM THE REDUCTION IN INTENSITY OF LIGHT PROJECTED OVER AN INTERROGATION PATH TRANSVERSE TO THE FLOW. USE OF A SIMPLE LIGHT SOURCE AND DETECTOR WITH FIBER OPTIC TRANSMISSION LINES PRODUCES AN INEXPENSIVE RUGGED INSTRUMENT WHICH CAN BE DEPLO ...

THE ADVANCE OF TECHNOLOGIES MAY MAKE DEFENSE AGAINST BALLISTIC MISSLES TECHNICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE. A NATIONAL POLICY DEBATE HAS BEGUN ON THE DESIRABILITY OF MAKING A TRANSITION FROM STRATEGIC DETERRANCE TO STRATEGIC DEFENSE. THE DEBATE IS AT PRESENT HIGHLY CONFUSING AND UNSTRUCTURED, SINCE THE VARIOUS ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST THAT TRANSITION ARE BASED ON DIFFERING ASSUMPTIONS, OFTEN TA ...

THE PURPOSE OF THIS BRIEF STUDY IS TO REVIEW THE PRESENT STATUS OF ENHANCED RADIATION WEAPONS FROM A TECHNICAL, MILITARY, AND POLITICAL POINT OF VIEW, AND TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE FUTURE OF THESE WEAPONS. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF INTERRELATED REASONS FOR UNDERTAKING SUCH A TASK AT THIS TIME. FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS THERE APPEARS TO BE A GENERAL RELUCTANCE TO CONTINUE THE ERW DEBATE AT TH ...

AN EXPERIMENT IS PROPOSED TO DEMONSTRATE THAT TRANSIENT X-RAY RADIATION FROM THE PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL PULSERAD 1150 FLASH X-RAY MACHINE WILL CAUSE A REPRESENTATIVE HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING (HTS) DEVICE TO MALFUNCTION BY REVERTING TO NORMAL CONDUCTIVITY. INTEREST IN THIS PHENOMENON IS MOTIVATED BY THE ANTICIPATED INCORPORATION OF HTS THIN FILM TECHNOLOGY IN DEFENSE ELECTRONICS, ESPECIALLY ...

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THE CONTRACTOR HAS PATENTED TECHNOLOGY FOR A UNIQUE PROCESS THAT DIRECTLY CONVERTS AN ACOUSTIC SIGNAL INTO A VISIBLE ONE IN REAL-TIME WITHOUT ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY. THIS RELIES ON THE ACOUSTO-OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF A CONTINUOUS LAYER OF LIQUID CRYSTAL THIN FILM LAYER WHICH SERVES AS BOTH THE SENSOR AND THE DISPLAY. THE IMAGE CAN BE VIEWED DIRECTLY BY MEANS OF CCD CAMERA. HOLOGRAPHY PROVIDES FOR BOTH ...

THE PROPOSED EFFORT WILL DEVELOP AND APPLY A NEW EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO MEASURE UNDERWATER TIME RESOLVED SHOCK WAVE PROFILES RESULTING FROM UNDERWATER OR SURFACE DETONATIONS. EXPLICIT DATA REQUIRED TO DESCRIBE UNDERWATER SHOCK WAVE EFFECTS ON TARGETS WILL BE OBTAINED USING A RECENTLY DEVELOPED PIEZOELECTRIC POLYMER STRESS GAUGE. A UNIQUE EXPERIMENTAL CONFIGURATION IS PROPOSED, THAT WILL ALLOW SH ...

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MISSION RESEARCH CORPORATION (MRC) PROPOSES TO BUILD HF-NEPS, AN HF CHANNEL SIMULATOR FOR BENCH-TOP TESTING OF HF TRANSCEIVERS. THE SIMULATOR WOULD DISTORT AND DELAY ANALOG HF SIGNALS AS IF THESE HAD PASSED THROUGH IONOSPHERIC REGIONS DISTURBED BY HIGH ALTITUDE NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS. THE FREQUENCY SELECTIVE HF CHANNEL MODEL UNDERLYING THIS HARDWARE SIMULATOR WILL ACCOMMODATE THE HF CHANNEL SPECIFICAT ...

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