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Optimum Weapon Deployment for Nuclear Attack

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  • F. M. Perkins

    (Staff Systems Evaluation Group, Convair, San Diego, California)

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Presented herein are solutions for the optimum deployment of both offensive and defensive weapons for a nuclear missile or aircraft attack against point targets. These solutions make it possible to determine rapidly the optimum deployment for both offense and defense and to estimate the expected level of destruction. The equations give some insight as to the interrelations between such factors as surviving worth, target hardness, warhead yield, accuracy, and defensive and offensive vehicle inventories.

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  • F. M. Perkins, 1961. "Optimum Weapon Deployment for Nuclear Attack," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 9(1), pages 77-94, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:9:y:1961:i:1:p:77-94
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.9.1.77
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