- Harold L. Brode
Harold L. Brode is a
nuclear weapons effectsphysicist who pioneeredcomputer simulations of nuclear explosions at theRAND Corporation in the 1950s. In 1951 he received his PhD fromCornell University where his supervisor wasHans A. Bethe . He is co-founder of R&D Associates, Vice-President of Strategic Systems atPacific-Sierra Research Corporation and Chairman of theU.S. Defense Nuclear Agency 'sScientific Advisory Group for Effects (SAGE) [http://fermat.nap.edu/books/0309036925/html/600.html] .One of his critics commented in "Physics Today", vol. 58: "Harold Brode probably knows more about nuclear weapons effects than any other person alive." [http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-58/iss-7/p17.html]
Major publications
*'Numerical Solution of a Spherical Blast Wave', "Physical Review A", vol. 95 (1954), pages 658 et seq.
*'Numerical Solutions of Spherical Blast Waves', "Journal of Applied Physics", vol. 26 (1955), pages 766 et seq. (online RAND version: [http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/2005/RM1363.pdf] ).
*'Cratering from a Megaton Surface Burst' (with R. L. Bjork), RAND Corporation, Research memorandum RM-2600, June 20, 1960 [http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM2600/] .
*'Review of Nuclear Weapons Effects', "Annual Review of Nuclear Science", vol. 18 (1968), pages 153 et seq.External links
*RAND Corporation's list of unclassified (non-secret) reports by Harold Brode [http://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/b/brode_harold_l.html]
*Some online links to Brode's blast and cratering analysis [http://glasstone.blogspot.com/2006/05/hal-brodes-rand-reports-available.html]
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