Fusing, arming, control, and ancillary systems in nuclear weapons.

DOE-STD-1185-2004

Supporting Knowledge and/or Skills

Describe the concept of one-point safety.

List possible conditions that might challenge one-point safety.

Describe designs that have been used to make warheads multi-point safe.

Nuclear explosive safety study personnel must have knowledge of fusing, arming,

control, and ancillary systems in nuclear weapons.

Supporting Knowledge and/or Skills

Discuss the basic components of fusing systems for reentry bodies (RBs), reentry

vehicles (RVs), and gravity bombs, including:

Radars

Contact fuses

Timers

Power supplies

Discuss the basic components of arming systems for RB/RVs and gravity bombs,

including:

Environmental sensing devices (ESD)

Fuse switches

Power supplies

Capacitor discharge units

Ferro-magnetic units

Switches

Describe the nuclear explosive use control features typical of U.S. weapons.

Describe the following as used in nuclear weapons and the hazards associated

with each:

Aeroshell

Bomb case

Radiation shielding

Yield-select mechanisms

Release mechanisms

Nuclear explosive safety study personnel must have knowledge of the U.S.

stockpile.

Supporting Knowledge and/or Skills

Find and discuss authoritative descriptions of weapons in the stockpile.

Nuclear explosive safety study personnel must have knowledge of high

explosives and their applicability in nuclear explosives.

Supporting Knowledge and/or Skills

Discuss the difference between IHEs and CHEs used in nuclear explosives.