- Author
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John, F. I.
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Passell, T. O.
- Title
- Evaluation of Nuclear Weapon Thermal Threat. Technical Memorandum. Final Report.
- Coporate
- Stanford Research Inst., Menlo Park, CA
- Sponsor
- Office of Civil Defense, Washington, DC
- Report
-
4949-360; OCD-PS-64-201,
August 1966,
86 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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nuclear warfare
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fire hazards
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detonation
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thermal radiation
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ignition
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radiation ignition
- Identifiers
- interior fires; fuel exposure; cloud burnout; transmission factors; fire density
- Abstract
- The threat to urban areas from fires produced by the detonation of a nuclear weapon may be measured in terms of the proportion of structures that will contain one or more significant fires, i.e., fires producing a flashover. In the study, this proportion is determined for uncrushed structures in which the ignition of an interior fuel by thermal radiation from a nuclear weapon results in at lease one significant fire. The proportions of structures containing a significant fire in different land-use areas are expressed as functions of the radiant exposure outside structures.