Author: Edmund J. Wells

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Published: 1956

Total Pages: 141

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One of the requisites of sound civil defense planning is the capability of predicting the results of nuclear attacks on the United States. Stanford Research Institute has been engaged by the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) to develop a system for the assessment of damage resulting from such attacks. This system as devised by the Institute includes: 1. Data on population and critical resources recorded in a form suitable for machine processing. 2. A method for determining the effects of nuclear weapons on population and critical resources. 3. Machine techniques for handling the computational work and the tabulation of results. The machine techniques (Item 3 above) have been developed around the IBM 650 because this computer was locally available at the Stanford computer center. This basic program can be adapted for use with other machines.