The paper deals with the comparison of two cases when humanity was closest to outbreak a world nuclear war - Cuban missile crisis (1962) and Ukrainian (2022). First, basic elements term “international crisis” were given, then, based on selected criteria, reality that arose from invasion Russian armed forces into Ukraine analyzed. international legal aspects these problems specially addressed, f...

Requirements need be established for architecting systems of systems (SoS) for sustainable delivery of value to users. This paper sketches a general methodology to establish such requirements. The methodology involves a system architecture paradigm, a sustainability analysis, a similarity principle, and a derivation of design requirements. The methodology is described in concrete terms as it is...

A kilowatt-class pulsed carbon dioxide laser radar system was recently installed at the top of Mount Haleakala (see Figure 1) at the Maui Space Surveillance Site (MSSS). The four-year Field Ladar Demonstration (FLD) program was awarded to Textron Systems Corporation (TSC) and contracted through the United States Army Strategic Missile and Defense Command (USASMDC). The work was completed in 199...

| The purpose of this paper is to propose a solution methodology for a missile defense problem involving the sequential allocation of defensive resources over a series of engagements. The problem is cast as a dynamic program-ming/Markovian decision problem, which is computation-ally intractable by exact methods because of its large number of states and its complex modeling issues. We have emplo...

Prior to taking an academic position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the rank of full professor I was the Assistant for Weapons Technology in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. In that job, it was my duty to identify technical issues that have policy implications in both Navy and National nuclear weapons programs. Because I supported the Chief in his role as a member o...

Two recent developments in South Asia have increased the risk of an accelerated arms race between India and Pakistan. One development is PakistanÕs introduction of theNasrmissile, a very-short-range, ÒtacticalÓ nuclear weapon that threatens IndiaÕs conventional forces and could also tempt other countries to develop battlefieldusable nuclear weapons. The other development is IndiaÕs announcement...

In view of the existing fire distribution algorithm without considering the coordination of firepower units and not giving the precise number of assigned, we proposed one multi-target fire distribution strategy based on improved genetic algorithm. We established the optimizing fire allocation model of air defense missile, designed its multitarget fire distribution strategy and performed a simul...

Although the Cold War has been over for a decade, conditions remain that are producing new instabilities—and potential conflicts—in the rapidly changing contemporary world. Missile proliferation issue is a case in point. Missiles, as the most effective delivery vehicles, have the advantages of high velocity, low cost, and great accuracy in a conflict. Few current control or defense measures are...

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This technical report contains the text of Philip Shirvani’s Ph.D. thesis “Fault-Tolerant Computing for Radiation Environments.” Funding: This work was supported in part by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, Innovative Science and Technology (BMDO/IST) Directorate and administered through the Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research under Grant Nos. N00014-92-J-1782 and N00014-...