dirty weapon

A weapon so designed that upon detonation
the amount of contaminating material, in the
form of either fission fragments or irradiated

material (or both), is relatively high by
comparison with other possible design

variations of the same mark numbered weapon,

A weapon may also be "dirty" by comparison

with different mark numbered weapons of the

same general yield,
dose (dosage)

Ionizing radiation delivered to a specific
area or volume or to the whole body, Units
for dose specification are roentgens for X
or gamma rays, roentgens equivalent man

(rems) for alpha, beta and neutron bombard-

ment of human tissue,

In radiology the dose

may be specified in air, on skin or at some
depth beneath the surface; no statement of
dose is complete without specification of

location, In current thinking there is a
tendency to regard a dose of radiation as the
amount of energy absorbed by tissue at the
site of interest per unit mass,

drag

That component of the total air forces on

a body, in excess of the forces owing to
ambient atmosphere and parallel to the

relative gas stream but opposing the
direction of motion; quantity which imposes

limitations upon top speed of vehicles,
missiles, and so forth.
drone aircraft

Radio-controlled aircraft not requiring the
presence of crewmen aboard during flight.

drop sequence

The prescribed order of the events which take

efficiency

place in the arming, fuzing, and firing
systems of an atomic weapon from time of
release to detonation.

The efficiency of an atomic weapon or device
may be defined as the ratio of the energy

actually developed when the bomb or device

explodes (the energy yield) to the total

energy available, In other words, efficiency
is the fraction of energy available which is
actually released in an explosion,. In the
case of a fission weapon this is equal to
the ratio of the number of meclei which
actually undergo fission to the total number
of fissionable nuclei present,

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