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Joint Chiefs of Staff: Notes

The purpose of the paper is to state the rationale upon which the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) bases its opposition to further extension of the Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT). The argumentation of the paper is hinged primarily on the contention that the USSR is ahead of the US in nuclear weapon technology. Accordingly, there is much for the US to do, so that the Soviets do not, primarily through the deployment of an Anti-Ballistic Missile [ABM] system, alter the strategic balanc the US should no… more

Date: August 29, 1966

Creator: Heckrotte, W.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Brief summary concerning strategic withholding (nuclear parsimony)

This memorandum provides a brief summary on thoughts concerning `Strategic Withholding` (or perhaps, `Nuclear Parsimony`). It is chiefly meant to further support the view that there should be other significant doctrines besides `Brute-Force Retaliation`. The basic doctrinal argument is that it may be broadly disadvantageous to fire one`s missiles in equal, or `total` retaliation. It may be better to reply only softly, or not at all. The basic justification rests on an assumption of extended war… more

Date: June 2, 1971

Creator: Wouters, L. F.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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U.S. Military Support for NATO

This report discuses U.S. military involvement and support for NATO and considers military strategy priorities and concerns regarding placement and numbers of troops in Europe.

Date: April 23, 1973

Creator: Collins, John M.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Computer based terrain analysis for operational planning

Analysis of operational capability is an ongoing task for military commanders. In peacetime, most analysis is conducted via computer based combat simulations, where selected force structures engage in simulated combat to gain insight into specific scenarios. The command and control (C/sup 2/) mechanisms that direct combat forces are often neglected relative to the fidelity of representation of mechanical and physical entities. C/sup 2/ capabilities should include the ability to plan a mission, … more

Date: January 1, 1987

Creator: Powell, D.R.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Special Operations Forces (SOF) technical analysis and evaluation

In response to Task Order 001, Los Alamos National Laboratory Contract 9-L5H-1508P-1, Betac Corporation is pleased to provide ten quick-response, short-term analytical papers in support of Low Intensity Conflict (LIC) and Special Operations (SO). The papers are study methodologies which provide background, baseline, concepts, approaches, and recommendations in the mission areas identified in the Statement of Work. Although the Statement of Work specifies only nine papers, a tenth paper has been… more

Date: August 31, 1987

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Avenue of approach generation

Los Alamos National Laboratory is conducting research on developing a dynamic planning capability within an Army corps level combat simulation. Central to this research is the development of a computer based ability to ''understand'' terrain and how it is used in military planning. Such a capability demands data structures that adequately represent terrain features used in the planning process. These features primarily relate to attributes of mobility and visibility. Mobility concepts are abstr… more

Date: January 1, 1988

Creator: Powell, D.R. & Storm, G.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Representations to support terrain reasoning

Los Alamos National Laboratory has been cooperating with the Training and Doctrine Command of the US Army to develop a Corps level combat simulation for quick turn around studies. The simulation of ground combat requires representation of combat units, unit activities, command and control, and terrain. This simulation model emphasizes command and control with particular attention to the potential for automating operational planning. As terrain analysis is an essential part of Army operational p… more

Date: January 1, 1988

Creator: Powell, D. R.; Wright, J. C.; Slentz, G. E. & Knudsen, P. D.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Economic impacts study

This is a progress report on the first phase of a project to measure the economic impacts of a rapidly changing U.S. target base. The purpose of the first phase is to designate and test the macroeconomic impact analysis model. Criteria were established for a decision-support model. Additional criteria were defined for an interactive macroeconomic impact analysis model. After a review of several models, the Economic Impact Forecast System model of the U.S. Army Construction Research Laboratory w… more

Date: September 30, 1988

Creator: Brunsen, W.; Worley, W. & Frost, E.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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The future of nonnuclear strategic weapons. Final summary report

In this brief study, Pan Heuristics (PAN) has (1) evaluated the future importance of nonnuclear strategic weapons (NNSW), (2) considered their impact on forces and operations, and (3) investigated the technical requirements to support NNSW. In drawing conclusions, PAN has emphasized aspects that might be important to Los Alamos National Laboratory over the long run. It presents them here in a format similar to that used in a briefing at the laboratory. This paper reflects independent PAN resear… more

Date: January 31, 1989

Creator: Brody, R. & Digby, J.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Artificial intelligence technologies applied to terrain analysis

The US Army Training and Doctrine Command is currently developing, in cooperation with Los Alamos National Laboratory, a Corps level combat simulation to support military analytical studies. This model emphasizes high resolution modeling of the command and control processes, with particular attention to architectural considerations that enable extension of the model. A planned future extension is the inclusion of an computer based planning capability for command echelons that can be dynamical i… more

Date: January 1, 1990

Creator: Wright, J. C. (Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, VA (USA)) & Powell, D. R. (Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA))

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Realistic warhead and blast shield testing of chemical energy tandem warhead systems for advanced antitank missiles

The results of dynamic sled track performance testing of advanced tandem configuration shaped-charge warheads against multiple-reactive-element tank armors are presented. Tandem configurations utilizing both currently fielded and experimental shaped-charge warheads were tested. Sled velocities used were between 400 and 1100 ft/s (Mach number 0.35 to 0.95), typical of the terminal approach velocity of TOW-type antitank missiles. High-speed motion pictures (5000 frames/s) of the sled in operation… more

Date: January 1, 1990

Creator: Fradkin, D.B.; Hull, L.M. & Laabs, G.W.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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The role of nuclear weapons in the year 2000

This publication presents the proceedings for the workshop, The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the Year 2000, held on October 22--24, 1990. The workshop participants considered the changing nature of deterrence and of our strategic relationship with the Soviet Union, the impact of nuclear proliferation on regional conflicts, and ways that the nuclear forces might be restructured to reflect new political circumstances.

Date: January 1, 1990

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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THIEF: An interactive simulation of nuclear materials safeguards

The safeguards community is facing an era in which it will be called upon to tighten protection of nuclear material. At the same time, it is probable that safeguards will face more competition for available resources from other activities such as environmental cleanup. To exist in this era, it will be necessary to understand and coordinate all aspects of the safeguards system. Because of the complexity of the interactions involved, this process puts a severe burden on designers and operators of… more

Date: January 1, 1990

Creator: Stanbro, William D.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Conventional forces and arms control: Technology and strategy in a changing world

To address the implications of changes for future roles of conventional forces and to assess the technology implications of future strategies, force requirements, and conventional arms control agreements, the Center for National Security Studies in cooperation with the Defense Research and Applications Directorate of the Los Alamos National Laboratory held a conference on Conventional Forces and Arms Control: Technology and Strategy in a Changing World'' at Los Alamos from September 25--27, 198… more

Date: June 1, 1990

Creator: Pilat, J.F. & White, P.C.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Empirical identification of user information requirements in command and control system evaluation

This paper summarizes a study that was conducted to address user information requirements for the Force Level Control System. It was the first in a series being conducted at the US Army Tactical Command and Control System Experimentation Site (AES). User information requirements were determined via monitoring and classification of communications during a command and control exercise, as well as through subsequent exercise participant input. Separate measures of observed communication frequency,… more

Date: June 1, 1990

Creator: McCallum, M.C.; Bittner, A.C. Jr. (Battelle Human Affairs Research Center, Seattle, WA (USA)) & Badalamente, R.V. (Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA))

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Arsenal of democracy in the face of change: Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs), their evolution and some economic considerations, Working Paper No. 4

A brief study was made of some of the forces driving the move to Precision Guided Munitions (PGMs), including the quest for military effectiveness, combat experience, and logistic compression. PGMs cost from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars per Kg but are tens to hundreds of times more effective than conventional munitions. A year's peacetime plateau production of each US PGM can be carried by a few C-5 aircraft. Surge quantities of PGMs are within US airlift capabilities, taking some of… more

Date: August 1, 1990

Creator: Chester, C. V.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Navy Mobility Fuels Forecasting System Phase 6 report: Impacts of a military disruption on Navy fuel availability and quality

The Refinery Yield Model of the Navy Mobility Fuels Forecasting System has been used to study the impacts of a severe military disruption on the production of Navy JP-5 jet fuel and F-76 marine diesel fuel in the year 1995. The global petroleum supply reduction due to the disruption was about 40 percent of the business-as-usual supply. Regional production cost increases for JP-5 were between $3 and $11 per gallon during the disruption. For F-76, the production cost increases were between $3 and… more

Date: September 1, 1990

Creator: Hadder, G.R. & Davis, R.M.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Superpressure Stratospheric Vehicle

Our need for wide-band global communications, earth imaging and sensing, atmospheric measurements and military reconnaissance is extensive, but growing dependence on space-based systems raises concerns about vulnerability. Military commanders require space assets that are more accessible and under local control. As a result, a robust and low cost access to space-like capability has become a national priority. Free floating buoyant vehicles in the middle stratosphere can provide the kind of cost… more

Date: September 15, 1990

Creator: Chocol, C.; Robinson, W. & Epley, L.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Quotas for CFE Treaty declared site inspections for baseline validation

The CFE Treaty will provide for limits on NATO and WTO forces, particularly tanks, armored personnel carriers, artillery, and helicopters. In addition to the overall limits on TLEs in the ATTU zone, there are expected to be secondary limits on single country forces, limits on forces based in foreign nations, and geographic sublimits. To help validate WTO declarations of baseline forces, the treaty may provide for on-site inspections by NATO of declared WTO basing facilities. One important unres… more

Date: October 2, 1990

Creator: Strait, R.S. & Sicherman, A.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Strategic forces: Future requirements and options

In the wake of the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the apparent ending of the Cold War, there have been renewed calls for radical cuts in US strategic forces to levels far below the 10,000 or so warheads allowed each side under the current START proposal. Since it now appears that NATO for the first time will have the capability to defeat a Soviet conventional attack without the necessity of threatening to resort to nuclear weapons, this should pave the way for the rethinking of US strategy and… more

Date: November 1, 1990

Creator: Speed, R.D.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Confirming the Lanchestrian linear-logarithmic model of attrition

This paper is the fourth in a series of reports on the breakthrough research in historical validation of attrition in conflict. Significant defense policy decisions, including weapons acquisition and arms reduction, are based in part on models of conflict. Most of these models are driven by their attrition algorithms, usually forms of the Lanchester square and linear laws. None of these algorithms have been validated. The results of this paper confirm the results of earlier papers, using a larg… more

Date: December 1, 1990

Creator: Hartley, D. S., III

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Average deployments versus missile and defender parameters

This report evaluates the average number of reentry vehicles (RVs) that could be deployed successfully as a function of missile burn time, RV deployment times, and the number of space-based interceptors (SBIs) in defensive constellations. Leakage estimates of boost-phase kinetic-energy defenses as functions of launch parameters and defensive constellation size agree with integral predictions of near-exact calculations for constellation sizing. The calculations discussed here test more detailed … more

Date: March 1, 1991

Creator: Canavan, G.H.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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Impact of a reduced nuclear weapons stockpile on strategic stability

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.

Item Type: Article

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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A theory of deterrence

The purpose of this monograph is to start a theory of deterrence which has the capability of quantitatively answering the question of what is required to deter a nation or alliance from certain acts. Despite the existence of voluminous writing on deterrence, from the beginning of the nuclear age and even before, none of it attempts a theoretical discussion of how to calculate what it takes to deter a country from committing some acts which are objectionable to another country. Many theories of … more

Date: March 20, 1991

Creator: Erickson, S. A. Jr.

Item Type: Report

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department