The Vulnerability of Hypothetical Rail Transport For a Mobile Ballistic Missile System

W. R. Elswick

ResearchPublished 1959

A description of the nuclear blast loading and response of some rail transport equipment that might be typical of that in a mobile rail ballistic missile system. The response of the rail vehicles is determined for several levels of blast "hardening," and the results are presented in terms of critical overpressures.

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  • Year: 1959
  • Pages: 22
  • Document Number: RM-2410

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Elswick, W. R., The Vulnerability of Hypothetical Rail Transport For a Mobile Ballistic Missile System. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1959. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM2410.html.
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