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Gold Codes are generated daily and provided by the National Security Agency (NSA) to the White House, The Pentagon, United States Strategic Command and TACAMO. For an extra level of security, the list of codes on the card includes codes that have no meaning, and therefore the president must memorize where on the list the correct code is located.
UC1583 PAL controller (early 1990s), based on a commercial Compaq LTE laptop. A permissive action link (PAL) is an access control security device for nuclear weapons.Its purpose is to prevent unauthorized arming or detonation of a nuclear weapon. [1]
United States Department of Defense directive 5230.16, Nuclear Accident and Incident Public Affairs (PA) Guidance, [1] Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Manual 3150.03B Joint Reporting Structure Event and Incident Reporting, and the United States Air Force Operation Reporting System, as set out in Air Force Instruction 10-206 [2] detail a number of terms for reporting nuclear incidents internally ...
H-912 transport container for Mk-54 SADM. A suitcase nuclear device (also suitcase nuke, suitcase bomb, backpack nuke, snuke, mini-nuke, and pocket nuke) is a tactical nuclear weapon that is portable enough that it could use a suitcase as its delivery method.
The components of a B83 nuclear bomb used by the United States. This is a list of nuclear weapons listed according to country of origin, and then by type within the states. . The United States, Russia, China and India are known to possess a nuclear triad, being capable to deliver nuclear weapons by land, sea and
A nuclear detonation detection system (NDDS) is a device or a series of devices that are able to indicate, and pinpoint a nuclear explosion has occurred as well as the direction of the explosion.
An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery shell, attached to a detonating mechanism.
ACAB code Activation and transmutation calculations for nuclear applications; ORIP_XXI code Isotope transmutation simulations; ORILL Code 1D transmutation, fuel depletion (burn-up) and radiological protection code; FISPACT-II Multiphysics, inventory and source-term code; MURE Serpent-MCNP utility for Reactor Evolution; VESTA Monte Carlo ...