Nuclear Weapon Effects Calculations in the TACWAR Code
Abstract : The study reviewed the accuracy of nuclear weapon effects data and algorithms used by the IDA TACWAR theater warfare simulation computer model to make damage evaluations. The report describes areas where improvements in specifying the nuclear explosion-generated effects--nuclear radiation, thermal radiation, and air blast--could be made.
We have analysed different hadronization models showing the advantages of a thermodynamic approach. It is based on the semi-inclusive statistical model that extrapolates the spectra of hadrons from (s0)1/2 = 20 GeV to the highest cosmic ray energies assuming scaling on a statistical variable and, as a consequence, a power law rise of multiplicity.