Download or read book Nuclear Weapons Safety and the Common Defense written by Joel Larus and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuclear Weapons Safety written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Panel on Nuclear Weapons Safety and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development Use and Control of Nuclear Energy for the Common Defense and Security and for Peaceful Purposes written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development Use and Control of Nuclear Energy for the Common Defense and Security and for Peaceful Purposes written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development Use and Control of Nuclear Energy for the Common Defense and Security and for Peaceful Purposes written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Report of the Nuclear Weapons Safety Panel written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nuclear Weapons Effects National Enterprise written by Office of the Under Secretary of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actions-both by others and of our own doing-are combining to create potentially tragic consequences on military operations involving the effects of nuclear weapons on the survivability of critical systems for mission assurance. * Regional proliferation risks are growing, accompanied by nation state policy and doctrine that acknowledge limited nuclear use as a legitimate war fighting option. * U.S. counters, especially defensive measures to ensure continued operations in radiation environments, are being reduced-by our own choices. * Intelligence resources are focused elsewhere. * Leadership is poorly educated on military operations in nuclear environments. * The reliance on commercial off-the-shelf components in U.S. military systems has grown while nuclear survivability requirements, testing, and evaluation have declined-both dramatically. As a result, the nation lacks a clear understanding of the response to nuclear radiation exposure of general purpose forces, the Global Information Grid (GIG) and the GIG-edge, and critical infrastructure on which the Department of Defense (DOD) relies. Moreover, the technical expertise and infrastructure to help remedy the situation has decayed significantly. Investments in addressing nuclear survivability have declined precipitously. How did this atrophy of attention and capability come about? The root causes seem to lie deep in the corporate point of view among DOD leadership that has developed since the end of the Cold War about these matters. A number of factors have contributed. Nuclear weapons have not been used, other than in deterrence, for over sixty years. And for the past twenty years, even the deterrent uses have been less immediate and direct, and have seemed less important than before. Since the first Gulf War, conventional operations of great difficulty and importance have consumed DOD and national attention, and have displaced nuclear deterrence as the reigning paradigm. Furthermore, there seems to be widespread belief that the United States will be able to deter enemy use of nuclear weapons.
Download or read book The Limits of Safety written by Scott Douglas Sagan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental tragedies such as Chernobyl, the Exxon Valdez, and Bhopal remind us that catastrophic accidents are always possible in a modern world full of hazardous technologies. Yet, the safety record appears to be extraordinarily good with nuclear weapons, the most dangerous technology of all. This safety record has led scholars, policy-makers, and the public alike to believe that nuclear weapons can serve as a safe and secure deterrent into the foreseeable future in the post-Cold War era. In this provocative and path-breaking book, Scott Sagan challenges such optimistic beliefs. Sagan's painstaking research into formerly classified archives penetrates the veil of safety that has surrounded U.S. nuclear weapons operations. Guided by theories of reliability in complex organizations, Sagan has uncovered a hidden history of frightening "close calls" to disaster: lost nuclear-armed bombers fly into the Russian warning net, Air Force officers tamper with missiles to be able to launch them without orders, B-52 bombers crash with thermonuclear weapons aboard and then vanish from the official histories, an unstable pilot deliberately turns on the two arming switches on his aircraft's nuclear bombs, and false warnings during the Cuban missile crisis lead pilots and radar operators to believe that the United States is under nuclear attack. Incomprehension, political maneuvering, and even cover-ups have limited what we have learned from these dangerous incidents, and Sagan maintains that many hidden bugs in the system remain. While the risk of deliberate nuclear war has been reduced with the end of the Cold War, the risk of serious accidents, even accidental war, remains unacceptably high. The inheritance of nuclear missiles by Soviet successor states, the continuing spread of the bomb to developing nations, and misplaced confidence in the safety of our own arsenal should produce deep concerns. Unless we radically change the posture of our nuclear arsenal, over the long run, when we least expect it, a serious accident will occur. The key factors that scholars believe lead to high organizational reliability - redundant back-up systems, personnel discipline, and trial-and-error learning - have not produced a safe nuclear arsenal. This book therefore challenges our beliefs, not only about nuclear weapons safety, but also about our ability to control the many other hazardous technologies on which modern society is based.
Download or read book Nuclear Weapons Safety written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Panel on Nuclear Weapons Safety and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Handbook written by United States. Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuclear Weapons Safety and the Common Defense written by Joel Larus and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 108 2 Committee Print Defense Related Nuclear Laws Etc No 6 April 2004 written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Security of U S Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Weapons Facilities written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Strategic and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DoD Nuclear Weapon System Safety Program Manual DoD 3150 2 M written by Department Defense and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-01-27 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Manual is issued under the authority of DoD Directive 3150.2, "DoD Nuclear Weapon System Safety Program," December 23, 1996. It prescribes procedures for implementation of the Department of Defense Nuclear Weapon System Safety Program.
Download or read book Defense related Laws as Amended Through December 31 2003 written by United States and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuclear Explosive and Weapon Surety Program written by U. S. Department Energy Staff and published by . This book was released on 2007-09-20 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OBJECTIVES. To prevent accidents and inadvertent or unauthorized use of U.S. nuclear explosives (including nuclear weapons). The Department of Energy (DOE) Nuclear Explosive and Weapon Surety (NEWS) Program is established for this and the subsequent objectives and is implemented through the following Orders: (1) DOE O 452.2B, Safety of Nuclear Explosive Operations, dated 8-7-01; (2) DOE O 452.4A, Security and Control of Nuclear Explosives and Nuclear Weapons, dated 12-17-01; and (3) DOE 5610.13, Joint Department of Energy)/Department of Defense Nuclear Weapon System Safety, Security, and Control Activities, dated 10-10-90. In conjunction with the Department of Defense (DoD), to protect the public health and safety by providing dual-Agency judgment and responsibility for the safety, security, and control (surety) of nuclear weapons. To establish nuclear explosive surety standards, nuclear weapon design surety requirements, and NEWS assessment requirements. To address surety vulnerabilities during all phases of the nuclear weapon life cycle and to upgrade surety during weapon stockpile refurbishments and/or new weapon development. To establish requirements and responsibilities for planned nuclear explosive operations (NEOs). [Responses to unplanned events (e.g., Accident Response Group activities) are addressed in the 5530-series Orders and DOE O 151.1B, Comprehensive Emergency Management System, dated 11-01-00.]
