Nuclear and NBC Contamination Survivability of Medical Materiel

摘要

This paper provides military personnel and contractors involved in thedevelopment and acquisition of military equipment with background information pertaining to Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) contamination survivability. Two categories of threat environments identified as Nuclear Weapons Effects (NWE) and NBC contamination are thoroughly described as well as the NBC terminology, protective measures, engineering practices, and organizational responsibilities that must be considered during materiel acquisition. The content in this paper was consolidated from the vast number of military standards (MIL-STDs), data item descriptions (DIDs), Army regulations (ARs), Quadripartite Standardization Agreements (QSTAGs) and other military documents that concern nuclear and NBC contamination and survivability as well as the input of the U.S. Army Nuclear and Chemical Agency, U.S. Army Laboratory Command and the U.S. Army Chemical Research, Development, and Engineering Center. Keywords: Nuclear hardening criteria; NBC contamination survivability criteria; Decontaminability; Nuclear weapons effects; NBC Parameters; NBC Contamination test facilities. (jhd)