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The nuclear weapons community has traditionally focused on the next generation or level of weapon capability complimented by gathering and analysis of actual test data. Now, with the cessation of actual weapons testing, there is an increased need to use the actual test data in modeling techniques to better understand the phenomenology and potential effects of nuclear weapons. The first phase of ...

THIS DOCUMENT PROPOSES RESEARCH ON THE FABRICATION OF A FAMILY OF EMP HARDENED CONNECTORS AND CABLE HARDWARE FOR AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBOARD APPLICATIONS. THESE CONNECTORS AND CABLE HARDWARE WOULD SUPPRESS EMP TRANSIENTS THROUGH THE INTEGRAL INCORPORATION OF A THIN FILM, HIGH SPEED, HIGH CURRENT OVONIC THRESHOLD SWITCH (OTS). CABLES AND HARDWARE OF THIS TYPE WOULD SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE SURVIVABILI ...

The Defense Nuclear Agency hase undertaken several related programs to develop new technologies for countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, including weapons which disperse dry spore biological agents. These initiatives require an increased understanding of the response o fthese agents and their surrogates to the environments generated by various weapons, including penetratin ...

WE PROPOSE TO PROVE THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY TO USE ELECTROSTATIC ACCELERATION TO BOOST THE ENERGY OF CF-252 FISSION FRAGMENTS AS A LABORATORY SIMULATION OF COSMIC RAY EFFECTS I MICROELECTRONICS. THE PROJECT OBJECTIVE IS TO BOOST THE ENERGY SUCH THAT A LARGE FRACTION OF THE ACCELERATED IONS HAVE A RANGE IN SILICON GRATER THAN 20 MICROMETERS. THIS SOLVES A NUMBER OF PROBLEMS ASSOCIA ...

DEVELOPMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE AND ECONOMICAL EXPERIMENTAL METHOD IS PROPOSED WHICH CAN PROVIDE THE BASIC BEHAVIOR DATA NECESSARY TO MEET THE DNA OBJECTIVE OF PROVIDING ADEQUATE ANALYSIS, DESIGN AND ASSESSMENT METHODS FOR MINIMALLY HARDENED TUNNELS. THIS DEVELOPMENT IS ACCOMPANIED BY ANALYSIS CAPABLE OF REPRESENTING THE COMPLEX INELASTIC MATERIAL BEHAVIOR OF THE ROCK MASS AND OF REPRESENTING SIMPLE ...