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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2005. Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11282.
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Acronyms and Abbreviations


ACTD

Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration

AF&F

Arming, Fusing, and Firing

ATACMS

Army Tactical Missile System

ATD

atmospheric transport and dispersion

AUP

Advanced Unitary Penetrator


BW

biological weapon


C3

command, control, and communications

C3I

command, control, communications, and intelligence

CBRN

chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear

CEP

circular error probable

CRH

caliber radius head

CW

chemical weapon


DELFIC

Defense Land Fallout Interpretive Code

DIA

Defense Intelligence Agency

DOB

depth of burst

DOD

Department of Defense

DOE

Department of Energy

DTED

digital topographic elevation data

DTRA

Defense Threat Reduction Agency

DUG1c

one-dimensional engineering ground-shock propagation code


EM-1

Effects Manual-1

EP

earth penetration

EPW

earth-penetrator weapon

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2005. Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11282.
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GPS

Global Positioning System

GVN

ground vulnerability number


HDBT

hard and deeply buried target

HOB

height of burst

HPAC

Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability (code)


ICRP

International Commission on Radiological Protection


JDAM

Joint Direct Attack Munition


KDFOC

K-Division Defense Nuclear Agency Fallout Code


LANL

Los Alamos National Laboratory

LD50

level of radiation at which 50 percent of the population would die

LLNL

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory


NCRP

U.S. National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements

NEWFALL

New Fallout Code

NGA

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

NNSA

National Nuclear Security Administration

NTS

Nevada Test Site


OMEGA

Operational Multiscale Environment Model with Grid Adaptivity


P II

Pershing II (missile)

PD

probability of damage

PDCALC

Probability of Damage Calculator


R&D

research and development

RIPD

Radiation Induced Performance Distribution

RNEP

robust nuclear earth penetrator (weapon)


SCIPUFF

Second-Order Closure Integrated Puff

SDOB

scaled depth of burial

SEPW

strategic earth-penetrator weapon

SNL

Sandia National Laboratories

SNLA

Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque

SNLL

Sandia National Laboratories Livermore

SRBM

short-range ballistic missile

SWIFT

Stationary Wind Fit and Turbulence


UGT

underground nuclear test

USSTRATCOM

United States Strategic Command

UV

ultraviolet

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2005. Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11282.
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VN

vulnerability number


WinGS

two-dimensional physics-based ground-shock code

WMD

weapons of mass destruction

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2005. Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11282.
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Underground facilities are used extensively by many nations to conceal and protect strategic military functions and weapons' stockpiles. Because of their depth and hardened status, however, many of these strategic hard and deeply buried targets could only be put at risk by conventional or nuclear earth penetrating weapons (EPW). Recently, an engineering feasibility study, the robust nuclear earth penetrator program, was started by DOE and DOD to determine if a more effective EPW could be designed using major components of existing nuclear weapons. This activity has created some controversy about, among other things, the level of collateral damage that would ensue if such a weapon were used. To help clarify this issue, the Congress, in P.L. 107-314, directed the Secretary of Defense to request from the NRC a study of the anticipated health and environmental effects of nuclear earth-penetrators and other weapons and the effect of both conventional and nuclear weapons against the storage of biological and chemical weapons. This report provides the results of those analyses. Based on detailed numerical calculations, the report presents a series of findings comparing the effectiveness and expected collateral damage of nuclear EPW and surface nuclear weapons under a variety of conditions.

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