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RDX- or -based formulations are generally used in anti-tank bomblets and minelets using casting and pressing techniques. Warheads are based on conventional high explosives for most of the tactical missiles nuclear warheads are deployed only in strategic and certain tactical missiles by the nuclear club nations, namely USA, ex-USSR, UK, France, China and India. 

Starting in the late 1950s, large-scale activities were deployed in the former USSR on development of the oceanic nuclear naval fleet comprising general-pmT)ose and strategic-missile Nuclear Submarines (NSs) - total built about 250 subs - and Nuclear-Powered Surface Vessels (NPSS) - total built 5 vessels. To support the nuclear fleet activities, appropriate supporting infrastructure was established 4 naval Coastal Maintenance Bases (CMB) and more than 30 nuclear Maintenance Vessels (MVs). 

Use Rockets, missiles, nuclear-powered applications as an insulator, especially for the range 1300-21OOF. 

Riera, J.D. (1989) Penetration, scabbing and perforation of concrete structures hit by solid missiles . Nuclear Engineering and Design, 115, North Holland. 

It is used in certain nickel-based alloys, such as the "Hastelloys(R)" which are heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant to chemical solutions. Molybdenum oxidizes at elevated temperatures. The metal has found recent application as electrodes for electrically heated glass furnaces and foreheaths. The metal is also used in nuclear energy applications and for missile and aircraft parts. Molybdenum is valuable as a catalyst in the refining of petroleum. It has found applications as a filament material in electronic and electrical applications. Molybdenum is an... 

K. P. Gant2, ed.. Nuclear Flight The United States Air Force Programs for Atomic Jets, Missiles, and Rockets, DueU, Sloan and Pearce, New York. 

Most modem projectiles and virtually all missiles contain explosives. The plasmas that result from explosives are intrinsic to operation of warheads, bombs, mines, and related devices. Nuclear weapons and plasmas are intimately related. Plasmas are an inevitable result of the detonation of fission and fusion devices and are fundamental to the operation of fusion devices. Compressed pellets, in which a thermonuclear reaction occurs, would be useful militarily for simulation of the effects of nuclear weapons on materials and devices. 

Pyrolytic graphite was first produced in the late 1800s for lamp filaments. Today, it is produced in massive shapes, used for missile components, rocket nozzles, and aircraft brakes for advanced high performance aircraft. Pyrolytic graphite coated on surfaces or infiltrated into porous materials is also used in other appHcations, such as nuclear fuel particles, prosthetic devices, and high temperature thermal insulators. 

This chapter overviews the techniques for incorporating external events into a PSA. The discussion was primarily aimed at nuclear power plants but is equally applicable to chemical process plants. The types of external events discussed were earthquakes, fires and floods. Notably absent were severe winds and tornados. Tornados are analyzed as missiles impacting the structures and causing common-cause failures of systems (EPRINP-768). Missile propagation and the resulting damage is a specialized subject usually solved with computer codes. 

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Missile payload varies from nuclear, through HE fitted with proximity fuzes, to chemical warheads. Electronic countermeasures equip-... 

Nuclear and non-nuclear rocket and missile warhead sections, and assigned rocket motors... 

Background- Picatinny Arsenal is a development Arsenal concerned with research and engineering of military propellants, explosives and hardware for Army weapons of all kinds and for the adaption of nuclear and non-nuclear warheads to missiles... 

Although missiles and other nuclear items were the new weapons of the post-Korean period,... 

Polaris Missiles. US nuclear delivery system (UGM-27 series). A solid propint two-stage... 

Arms sales, which could include the Russian SSN-22 supersonic anti-ship cruise missile, the SU-30 fighter, and Typhoon class nuclear ballistic submarines. 

The father of this system was the so-called fault tree that was developed for the U.S. missile program. The developers ran into the problem of testing the electric circuits of the Minute Man missiles. No one wants a nuclear warhead accidentally fired into space. Yet all the electric circuits had to be tested so that in case of an attack the missiles could be relied on. The fault tree was a method of predicting the probability of an unplanned launch as a result of testing. If the probability were high then either another way would have to be found to test the circuits or more safety devices would have to be installed. 

Early in the program, critical components (e.g.,the turbomolecular pump) and circuit boards were tested for their ability to survive neutron and gamma irradiation rates and doses similar to those that would be received from exposure to the detonation of a tactical nuclear device. All components were powered up at the start of the gamma irradiation tests but not during the neutron irradiation tests. Circuit boards were protected by circumvention circuits that powered down critical circuits in 10 to lOOps upon detecting radiation. All components survived the nuclear radiation tests. This unusual performance was noted with positive commendations by the staff at the White Sands Missile Range, where the tests were performed. Tests of the fully integrated CBMS II system, installed in a reconnaissance vehicle, will be conducted in the future. 

Kennedy, R. P., "A Review of Procedures for the Analysis and Design of Concrete Structures to Resist Missile Impact Effects," Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 37, 1976,... 

Ground zero Location of a nuclear explosion. Exact location may be in the air (using a bomb or missile) or underground but is assumed in this text to be detonated on the ground, where it will do the most damage. 

Nuclear warhead Refined and predictable nuclear device that can be carried by missile, aircraft, or other means. 

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