Nuclear Play Calculator Aggressor; Department of the Army Field Manual FM 105-6-3
Washington DC: Department of the Army, Headquarters, 1964. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Disbound, three hole punched, held together with a binder clip. Some of the punch holes are torn. Format is approximately 9 inches by 11 inches. Approximately 50 pages plus many tabs. Rare surviving original copy. Table of Contents includes: Introduction (including Instructions for the use of the nuclear play calculator), Strike Assessment Procedures (including sections for cannons, free rockets, missiles, air delivered weapons, atomic demolition munitions and partisan atomic demolition munitions, and new Aggressor weapons); Damage Determination, References, and Nuclear Play Calculator Aids (in envelope). The Aids are present. This manual includes 11 tables in Chapter 2 and 15 tables in Chapter 3. This manual provides guidance on procedures and techniques for evaluation the nuclear play of aggressor forces during tactical exercises. This manual provides the necessary aids for the Aggressor to determine the damage to United States and Allied forces from nuclear strikes. The weapons systems in this manual are based on material contained in the Handbook on Aggressor Military Forces, FM 30-102. Chapter 2 contains the tables for Aggressor strike assessments from nuclear weapons. Chapter 3 contains the damage radii tables from the nuclear weapons employed by the aggressor forces. Large Strategic Weapons (20MT-100MT) were not included. Source date were extracted from FM 101-31-1. Aids envelop includes 8 plastic sheets of horizontal dispersion templates (scaled 1:50,000 and 1:25,000) for cannons, free rockets and Guided missiles and air delivered weapons, and Damage circle templates for 1:50,000 and 1:25,000). Plastic sheets show wear and loss of text. More