scholarly journals Improvised Nuclear Device

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Device

China and the Bomb—Chinese Nuclear Strategy

1965 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 74-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morton H. Halperin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Nuclear Strategy ◽  
Nuclear Device ◽  
Very High

The detonation of a nuclear device by the People's Republic of China on October 16, 1964, made it unmistakably clear that China attached a very high priority to becoming a militarily effective nuclear power as soon as possible. Although the effect on Chinese economic development has probably been relatively limited thus far, the Chinese are devoting substantial resources to their nuclear programme and may be expected to have militarily effective systems within this decade. The Chinese appear to be considerably further along in the development of nuclear weapons and delivery systems than had been previously anticipated.

Unconventional Weapons

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pesach Malovany ◽  
Amatzia Baram ◽  
Kevin M. Woods ◽  
Ronna Englesberg
Keyword(s):  
International Atomic Energy Agency ◽  
Atomic Energy ◽  
Foreign Assistance ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Biological Weapons ◽  
Chemical Weapons ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
Energy Agency ◽  
Chemical And Biological Weapons ◽  
Nuclear Device

The chapter deals with the Iraqi efforts to develop and produce weapons of mass destruction—chemical, biological and nuclear. It describes the various projects in each field, their history, the foreign assistance they got, the infrastructure the Iraqis built for them, their achievements and types of weapons the Iraqis produces and their arsenals, especially of the Chemical and Biological weapons. The efforts of the U. N. supervisory commissions (UNSCOM) and the international Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to disarm Iraq from those weapons and capabilities to renew the development and production of them by Iraq after 1991. The use of chemical weapons by the Iraqis against the Kurds and the Iranian forces during the war between the two countries, and the possibility of using them against coalition forces during the wars in 1991 and 2003. The Iraqi efforts to achieve a nuclear device in a crash program before the war in 1991.

Project Jason measurement of trapped electrons from a nuclear device by sounding rockets

1959 ◽  
Vol 64 (8) ◽  
pp. 893-907 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lew Allen ◽  
James L. Beavers ◽  
William A. Whitaker ◽  
Jasper A. Welch ◽  
Roddy B. Walton
Keyword(s):  
Sounding Rockets ◽  
Trapped Electrons ◽  
Nuclear Device

scholarly journals Rural and Suburban Population Surge Following Detonation of an Improvised Nuclear Device: A New Model to Estimate Impact

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (S1) ◽  
pp. S143-S150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Meit ◽  
Irwin Redlener ◽  
Thomas W. Briggs ◽  
Mike Kwanisai ◽  
Derrin Culp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Radiation Hazards ◽  
Population Movements ◽  
The Public ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Nuclear Device ◽  
Center City

ABSTRACTBackground: The objective of the study was to model urban evacuation into surrounding communities after the detonation of an improvised nuclear device (IND) to assist rural and suburban planners in understanding and effectively planning to address the effects of population surges.Methods: Researchers developed parameters for how far evacuees would travel to escape disasters and factors that would influence choice of destination from studies of historical evacuations, surveys of citizens' evacuation intentions in hypothetical disasters, and semistructured interviews with key informants and emergency preparedness experts. Those parameters became the inputs to a “push-pull” model of how many people would flee in the 4 scenarios and where they would go.Results: The expanded model predicted significant population movements from the New York City borough of Manhattan and counties within 20 km of Manhattan to counties within a 150-mi radius of the assumed IND detonation. It also predicted that even in some communities located far from Manhattan, arriving evacuees would increase the population needing services by 50% to 150%.Conclusions: The results suggest that suburban and rural communities could be overwhelmed by evacuees from their center city following an IND detonation. They also highlight the urgency of educating and communicating with the public about radiation hazards to mitigate panic and hysteria, anticipating the ways in which a mass exodus may disrupt or even cripple rescue and response efforts, and devising creative ways to exercise and drill for an event about which there is great denial and fatalism.(Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2011;5:S143-S150)

Structural Module Partition and Fault Diagnosis of Nuclear Electric Valve Based on Function Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 670-671 ◽  
pp. 1366-1369
Author(s):  
Chao Zhang ◽  
Jin Sheng Zhang ◽  
Zhi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Fault Diagnosis ◽  
Structure Analysis ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Nuclear Facilities ◽  
Safe Operation ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
Working Performance ◽  
Nuclear Device ◽  
Module Partition ◽  
Direct Correspondence

The electric valve cutting off or connecting pipeline of nuclear equipment is an essential component of nuclear facilities for safe operation, whose reliability directly determines working performance of entire nuclear device. Based on function analysis, module partition and structure analysis of valve have been carried out in the paper, and the direct correspondence between common faults and structural modularization of valve has been established. Furthermore, the proper methods and procedures of fault diagnosis for nuclear valve are put forward, which can guarantee safe operation of nuclear facilities.

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