A Virtual Nuclear War: Transforming America's Nuclear War Plans: Transforming America's Nuclear War Plans

Author: U.S. National Resources Defense Council
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: The U.S. National Resources Defense Council is a national nonprofit environmental protection organization with over 500,000 members in the U.S. It has offices in New York, Washington, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Since 1970, scientists, lawyers, and staff of the U.S. National Resources Defense Council have been dedicated to researching the protection of global natural resources and improving the quality of human living environments. In 1999, the U.S. National Resources Defense Council's project began studying the "Unified Joint Operations Plan," which sparked new thinking about the speed of disarmament, nuclear armaments, and the risks and consequences of nuclear conflict. This book is divided into six chapters: Chapter 1 explains the purpose and objectives of the U.S. National Resources Defense Council's nuclear war simulation model and target database; Chapter 2 provides a brief review of the current international nuclear forces situation, tracing the history and origins of the U.S. nuclear war planning, and describing the process of developing the "Unified Joint Operations Plan"; Chapter 3 describes the U.S. National Resources Defense Council's nuclear war simulation model and target database; Chapter 4 focuses on discussing the military strike options that the U.S. National Resources Defense Council considers close to the U.S. "Unified Joint Operations Plan"; Chapter 5 compares the strike plans against Russian nuclear forces and cities, calculating the effects of using a moderate amount of nuclear weapons against Russian urban targets; Chapter 6 explains the recommendations that the U.S. National Resources Defense Council believes should be followed and implemented.