Nuclear Weapons Assessment and Programming: "READY I" and "Annex to the Third Draft of READY I".

David Rowland; Edgar M Cagley; Patricia Devine;  Arthur Williams; Irving Gaskill.

Published by National Resource Evaluation Center, 1963

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David Rowland; Edgar M Cagley; Patricia Devine;  Arthur Williams; Irving Gaskill. "READY I" and "Annex to the Third Draft of Ready I". "Ready I": National resource Evaluation Center, NREC Report No 24, Third Draft. 11"x 8.5", approx 120pp. "Mathematics and Computation Laboratory. 1963. NRED Technical Report No. 24. OFFERED WITH: Annex to Third Draft of READY I, February 14, 1964. Office of Emergency Planning National Resource Evaluation Center. Executive Office of the President. 11"x 8.5", 92pp. [++] Both are mimeographed and bound in stiff-ish wrappers in a plastic comb gvc binding. Both are VG. WORLDCAT finds only ONE copy (National Emergency Training Center (FEMA/USFA)). [++] "The third draft attempts to provide a complete discussion of the logic requirements of the minimum READY I system (with the exception of casualty and thermal analysis). Input-output formats have been fixed and the formulation of the mathematical models is complete."--from the introduction. [+] "The READY system (is set to replace on the CDC-3600 computer) the following NREC systems of programs in use on the UNIVAC 1003A: File III, JUMBO III, Streak IV, Dart II." [++] Sections include: (2) General system characteristics; (3) File Preparation Section; (4) Attack Preparation (weapons preparations program, wind preparation, attack preparation conditions. (5) Weapon Effects section, (weapons effects program, Fallout Computation Model, Damage Computation Model, ordered program). (6) Analysis section; (7) Reconnaissance section (aerial recon, ground surveys, post-attack censuses, priorities; (8) special outputs; appendix heading formats and statistics.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nuclear Weapons Assessment and Programming: "READY I" and "Annex to the Third Draft of READY I".
• Publisher: National Resource Evaluation Center
• Publication Date: 1963
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Atomic Bomb/Nuclear Weapons
  • Military