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Impact of a reduced nuclear weapons stockpile on strategic stability

Description: This presentation is to discuss the impact of a reduced nuclear weapons stockpile on the strategic stability. Methodologies used to study strategic stability issues include what are basically strategic-force exchange models. These models are used to simulate a massive nuclear exchange in which one side attacks and the other side retaliates. These models have been of interest to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program. Researchers have been looking at issues concerning the stability of th… more
Date: March 20, 1991
Creator: Chrzanowski, P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear weapons, nuclear effects, nuclear war

Description: This paper provides a brief and mostly non-technical description of the militarily important features of nuclear weapons, of the physical phenomena associated with individual explosions, and of the expected or possible results of the use of many weapons in a nuclear war. Most emphasis is on the effects of so-called ``strategic exchanges.``
Date: August 20, 1991
Creator: Bing, G. F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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