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Nov 1, 1975

The Technology of Precision Guidance: Changing Weapon Priorities, New Risks, New Opportunities

This paper discusses questions raised by the new wide availability of precision guided munitions (PGMs) and the implications of these weapons on large-scale nonnuclear war, use by smaller countries, trends in arms transfer and ideas for arms control.

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Jan 1, 1975

Precision Weapons: Lowering the Risks with Aimed Shots and Aimed Tactics

Deals with the implications of precision guided munitions (PGMs) being widely available, and resulting opportunities for greater security. The paper also discusses use of PGMs by smaller countries, trends in arms transfer and some ideas for arms control.

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Jul 1, 1967

Presidential Control of Force: The Korean War and the Cuban Missile Crisis

An analysis of the rationale and necessity for presidential direction and control of limited military conflicts, as demonstrated by the Korean experience and the Cuban missile crisis.

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Jan 1, 1967

The Ballistic Missile Decisions

An outline of decisions concerning ballistic missiles from the reaction to the German use of guided missiles in the closing months of World War II in Europe through the enunciation of a new set of national strategic principles during the U.S. ...

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Jan 1, 1966

Conventional Missile Attacks Against Aircraft on Airfields and Aircraft Carriers

A ballistic missile attack using warheads containing many small fragmentation bomblets is considered, with special application to the war in Vietnam.

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Feb 1, 1965

Sufficiency and Information Rate of Multi-Stage Statistical Tests

This Memorandum formulates the problem and the definition of quantities of interest, and demonstrates certain fundamental equalities of the conditional distributions of the sample size occurring in Wald's sequential probability ratio test.

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Jan 1, 1965

A Preliminary Treatment of Mobile SLBM Defense: Game Theoretic Analysis

A game analysis of the deployment of a defense system against submarine-launched ballistic missiles composed of mobile defense units capable of destroying a nearby submarine and its missiles at the time of launch.

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Jan 1, 1965

Cost Sensitivity Analysis

A discussion of the techniques of cost sensitivity analysis, illustrated by a hypothetical investigation of a system designed to protect the United States against submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

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May 17, 1963

Tentative Thoughts on Non-Nuclear IRBM's for Attacking Parked Aircraft

This paper is the result of a recent suggestion by Dale Oyster regarding the use of ballistic missiles with non-nuclear warheads to attack parked aircraft at ranges on the order of 1500 n mi.

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Jan 1, 1963

Military Systems Analysis

A survey intended for military officers and others acquainted with but not well versed in the technique of systems analysis.

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May 1, 1962

Optimal Replacement Policies for a Ballistic Missile

This Memorandum applies, to ballistic missile systems, replacement policies for equipment subject to stochastic failures in which the actual state of the system — good or failed — is not known with certainty.

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Jan 1, 1960

Optimizing a prelaunch checkout.

A consideration of the problem of making design decisions for time-limited checkouts of ballistic missiles. The paper develops (1) a quantitative criteria for the value of including individual checks in the checkout, (2) an expression for the require...

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The Technology of Precision Guidance: Changing Weapon Priorities, New Risks, New Opportunities

Precision Weapons: Lowering the Risks with Aimed Shots and Aimed Tactics

Presidential Control of Force: The Korean War and the Cuban Missile Crisis

The Ballistic Missile Decisions

Conventional Missile Attacks Against Aircraft on Airfields and Aircraft Carriers

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Tentative Thoughts on Non-Nuclear IRBM's for Attacking Parked Aircraft

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Optimal Replacement Policies for a Ballistic Missile

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