Harold L. Brode is a nuclear-weapons-effects

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who pioneered computer simulations of nuclear explosions at the RAND Corporation in the 1950s. In 1951, he received his PhD from

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where his supervisor was Hans A. Bethe. He is co-founder of

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, Vice-President of Strategic Systems at Pacific-Sierra Research Corporation and Chairman of the U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency's

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(SAGE

One of his critics commented in ''Physics Today'', vol. 58: "Harold Brode probably knows more about nuclear weapons effects than any other person alive.

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

. *'Cratering from a Megaton Surface Burst' (with R. L. Bjork), RAND Corporation, Research memorandum RM-2600, June 20, 196

*'A Review of Nuclear Explosions Phenomena Pertinent to Protective Construction' RAND Corporation, R-425-PR, May 1964, pages 63. *

External links

*RAND Corporation's list of unclassified (non-secret) reports by Harold Brod

*Some online links to Brode's blast and cratering analysi

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