A PROPOSED RAINOUT HAZARD MODEL FOR SYSTEMS ANALYSIS STUDIES

摘要

Rainout from nuclear airbursts presents a potential residual radiation hazard to civilian populations. A rainout hazard model for use in nuclear weapon system studies is proposed. The model includes a summer synoptic weather system, a large-cloud diffusion code, and a simple demographic distribution of a heavily populated industrialized area. A primitive estimate of the number of casualties that might be expected from a 1-kt airburst weapon is calculated.