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Optimization of strategic defenses to provide specified post‐attack production capacities

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  • Jerome Bracken
  • James T. McGill

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This paper presents a model for choosing a minimum‐cost mix of strategic defenses to assure that specified production capacities for several economic sectors survive after a nuclear attack. The defender selects a mix of strategic defenses for each of several geographic regions. The attacker chooses an allocation of attacking weapons to geographic regions, within specified weapon inventories. The attack is optimized against any economic sector. This formulation allows the defense planner the capability to assess the results of the optimal defense structure for a “worst case” attack. The model is a mathematical program with nonlinear programming problems in the constraints; an example of its application is given and is solved using recently developed optimization techniques.

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  • Jerome Bracken & James T. McGill, 1974. "Optimization of strategic defenses to provide specified post‐attack production capacities," Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 21(4), pages 663-672, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:navlog:v:21:y:1974:i:4:p:663-672
    DOI: 10.1002/nav.3800210410
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    1. George E. Monahan, 1996. "Finding saddle points on polyhedra: Solving certain continuous minimax problems," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 43(6), pages 821-837, September.

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