Nuclear Weapon Systems Sustainment Programs (Good read)

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Nuclear Weapon Systems
Sustainment Programs
May 1997
Office of the Secretary of Defense
http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/dswa/

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND
Strategic Requirements
Strategic Force Redirection
Nuclear Sustainment Responsibilities
Pathway to Nuclear Sustainment
DOD NUCLEAR WEAPON SYSTEMS SUSTAINMENT PROGRAMS
Introduction
Maintaining Nuclear Skills
Organizations and Procedures
Ensuring that Sufficient Numbers of Qualified Personnel Support
DoD Nuclear Weapon Systems Sustainment
Considerations
Navy Team Concept
Nuclear Education
Nuclear Engineering Programs
Military Service and Department Programs
The Defense Nuclear Weapons School (DNWS)
Operational Training
Exercises
Cooperation with the Department of Energy
Assignment of DoD Personnel to DOE Labs
Dual Revalidation
The Alliance Program
Weapon System Hardware Technology
Introduction
OSD, Service, and Interagency Programs
Joint Air Force/Navy Nuclear Weapon System
Sustainment Programs
Reentry Systems Applications Program (RSAP)
Guidance Applications Program
Radiation Hardened (Rad Hard) Microelectronics
Strategic Technology IPT Initiatives
Integrated High Payoff Rocket Propulsion Technology
(IHPRPT)
Navy Programs
Navy SLBM Warhead Protection Program (SWPP)
Trident D-5 Backfit Program
Air Force Programs
Nuclear Weapons Capabilities Protection Assessment
(NWCPS)
Bomber Technologies
Minuteman III Technologies
Nuclear Effects Phenomenology and Hardening Technology
Status of Requirements
Nuclear Effects, Weapon-Target-Interactions, and Hardening R&D
Defense Radiobiological/Biomedical Research
Computational and Simulation Programs
Weapon Effects Simulators
Additional Initiatives
Approach
Integrated Hardening Methodologies
Testable Hardware
Preservation and Application of the Defense Department's Nuclear Weapons
Effects Knowledge
CONCLUSIONS
ANNEX A. OVERVIEW OF RELATED SUSTAINMENT ACTIVITIES BEING ACCOMPLISHED BY
THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
ANNEX B. OVERSIGHT AUTHORITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN NUCLEAR WEAPON
SYSTEMS SUSTAINMENT PROGRAMS
ANNEX C. GLOSSARY FOR SELECTED TERMS.
ANNEX D. ACRONYMS


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