Civil Defense Warning System Research Support. Volume 3: Use of Damage Assessment Information for Warning (Redacted).

摘要

This volume (Volume III) of the final report discusses the relationship existing between warning and damage assessment (burst sensor) systems that are currently in existence or have been proposed to the Office of Civil Defense (Task 8), The first two sections of this report presents the Introduction and the Summary and Conclusions of the study, Section Three examines the warning requirements and the reculting requirements for damage assessment systems. The sufficiency of automatic damage assessment systems is examined in Section Four, where 477L Phase I (NUDETS), Bomb Alarm System (BAS), Improved Bomb Alarm System, and Western Union's Survivable Damage Assessment System are examined ln detail not only for their suitability for warning, but also their overall capabilities. Section Five examines the sufficiency of manual damage assessment methods in the same light. Section Six provides some insights into the accuracies and ranges of applicability of scaling laws for Blast, Initial Radiation, and Time to Second Thermal Maximum. Annexed are the corrected thermal scaling formulas, and a bibliography, and brief glossary.