The New Nuclear Radiation Casualty Criteria; Nuclear Notes Number 3
Fort Bliss, TX: U.S. Army Nuclear Agency, 1975. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 8 inches by 10.5 inches. 10 pages. Wraps. Charts. Three-hole punched and staple bound. Part of a series of information papers on topics associated with nuclear weapons, principally designed for use by Tradoc School instructors and major command staff officers. The series of papers, "Nuclear Notes," prepared by the US Army Nuclear Agency was intended to clarify and explain various aspects of nuclear weapons phenomenology and usage. These papers are prepared in as non-technical fashion as the subject matter permits. They are oriented toward an audience assumed to be responsible for teaching or in some way evaluating the actions and techniques of employing nuclear weapons in a conflict situation. The new nuclear radiation casualty criteria discussed herein have been approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff for use by all US Armed Services in nuclear weapons target analysis and selection procedures for land battlefield targets. Many years of detailed analysis and experimentation have produced an improved understanding of nuclear weapons technology and phenomena, and of human and animal response to nuclear radiation. The purposes of this Nuclear Note are first, to briefly describe the information and data used to develop new radiation casualty criteria, and second, to show how these criteria can be used by the battlefield commander and staff in planning nuclear strikes to inflict enemy casualties. The radiation criteria discussed in this note apply only to initial radiation doses resulting from a single nuclear detonation they do not apply to doses resulting from exposure to radioactive fallout. Moreover, the criteria do not consider synergistic effects due to the air blast and/or thermal energies that accompany initial radiation. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Nuclear Weapons, Civil Defense, Radiation Damage, Casualty Criteria, Military Training, Military Doctrine, Incapacitation, Functionally Impaired, Radiation Dose
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