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. The nuclear play calculator is a device for applying performance probabilities to nuclear delivery systems. The horizontal dispersion template is an aid used to determine the actual ground zero of a nuclear weapon. The damage circle template is an aid used in conjunction with the damage letters to evaluate the damage to personnel and equipment. The target element table, describes target categories and the damage to be expected within each letter damage circle. The Damage circle radii tables are a series of tables showing the damage radii based on the height of burst and the weapon yield. Pagination is i; Chapter 1, 1-1 to 1-3; Chapter 2, 2-1 through 2-13 with tabs for Cannons, Free Rockets, Guided Missiles, Air-Delivered Weapons, and Atomic Demolition Munitions; Chapter 2, 3-1 through 3-29 with tabs for 0.1 kt, 0.5kt, 1 kt, 2 kt, 5 kt,10 kt, 20 kt, 50kt, 100 kt, 500 kt, 1 mt, 2 mt, 5 mt, Appendix is A-1 through A-2. Last page, unpaginated, is a distribution list. The envelop with the aids is affixed inside the back cover. Among the Aggressor weapons address were the 203-mm gun/howitzer, 240-mm mortar, 310-mm gun, 400-mm mortar, Nerono and Kolosso (free rockets), Tondro, Fulmo, Supro, Sago, and Aglo (missiles), Pafago, Detruizo, and Forviso (air delivered weapons), and atomic demolition munitions. This manual reflects, the state-of-the-art, the state of knowledge, the state of training, and the state-of-tactical nuclear weapons employment during the height of the cold war, after the Cuban Missile Crisis and before the focus of the Army shifted to ground combat in Vietnam. Condition: Fair.

Keywords: Military Manuals, Tactical Nuclear Weapons, Military Training, Military Exercises, Damage Assessment, Atomic Demolition Munitions, War Games, Aggressor Forces

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