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Oct 12, 1960

Operation Cliff Dweller: Hardening Bases, Atmospheric Control and Disease

Using a submarine environment as an analogy, this report assesses how to maintain a healthy atmosphere in an underground base, including prevention and control of infectious diseases.
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Mar 8, 1960

Sitting Ducks or Decoys: The High Cost of SAC Dispersal to Large-City Airfields

This short paper by Nobel Prize winner Thomas C. Schelling argues against the use of civilian airfields near large cities for dispersing Strategic Air Command bombers.
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Oct 23, 1959

Report of a Meeting Concerning B-52 Hardening

This short paper provides meeting notes from an October 8, 1959, meeting between the U.S. Air Force and RAND staff in the Pentagon.
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Aug 26, 1959

Hard Homes for Heavy-Bomber Crews

This short paper argues that one of the problems, and perhaps the main one, constraining a high level of air and ground alert for Strategic Air Command B-52s is a shortage of aircrews.
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Aug 17, 1959

An Alert Shelter for the B-58

This report assesses the feasibility of building nuclear-hardened aircraft alert shelters for B-52 and B-58 bombers.
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Jul 27, 1959

Vulnerability of Quick-Reacting Sheltered Missiles and Aircraft During Launch

This short paper analyzes the residual effects of a nuclear attack on an airfield.
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Jul 13, 1959

Hardened Alert Hangars

This report summarizes the results of a preliminary study to determine the advantages, disadvantages, and estimated construction costs of several types of blast-resistant shelters for the B-70 aircraft and its crew.
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Mar 27, 1959

Let's Build a B-52 Shelter Now

This short internal note argues that RAND should make a serious effort to convince the U.S. Air Force to contract for the immediate construction of two to three prototype shelters for the B-52.
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Mar 27, 1959

Underground Phenomenology: Summary and Conclusions

Conclusions on the present status and the probable future of research into the underground phenomena associated with air- or surface-burst nuclear explosions.
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Mar 26, 1959

Proceedings of the Second Protective Construction Symposium: Deep Underground Construction, Volume II

Part two of a collection of 45 papers submitted to the RAND-sponsored Second Protective Construction Symposium March 24-26, 1959.
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Mar 26, 1959

Proceedings of the Second Protective Construction Symposium: Deep Underground Construction, Volume I

Part one of a collection of 45 papers submitted to the RAND-sponsored Second Protective Construction Symposium March 24-26, 1959.
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Oct 8, 1957

Size and Cost of Shelter Doors Subjected to Long Duration Nuclear Blast Loading

This report uses ultimate load theory and simplified dynamic analysis to assess aircraft shelter door performance when subjected to pressure loading from high-yield nuclear explosions.