Estimated effects of ionizing radiation upon military task performance: individual combat crewmember assessment

Technical Report · Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:6578860

Anno, G H; Wilson, D B

Quantitative estimates are developed of the performance levels for selected individual Army combat crewmembers exposed to prompt ionizing radiation from nuclear weapons. The performance levels, expressed in percent of normal (baseline) task performance, provide information for military operations planning, combat training, and computer simulation modeling of combat crew and unit effectiveness. The methodology is described where data from two separate bodies of information: acute radiation sickness symptomatology, and judgment of task performance time from Army combat crew questionnaires - are integrated to compute performance levels as a function of dose (free-in-air) and post-exposure time.

• Research Organization: Pacific-Sierra Research Corp., Los Angeles, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6578860
• Report Number(s): AD-P-003255/7
• Resource Relation: Other Information: This article is from 'Proceedings of the Symposium: Psychology in the Department of Defense (9th) Held at Colorado Springs, Colorado on 18-20 April 1984', AD-A141043, p95-99
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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