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Module - V Nuclear Warfare

Warfare and
Its Types

Note

Fig 12.7 - Individual Protective Equipment

12.6.2 The collective protection

The collective protection is provided by construction of Nuclear Biological and Chemical
(NBC) protected underground shelters. The shelter should be well stocked with food,
water, medicines and should have working phone lines, a radio and other communication
devices.

Intext Questions 12.4

1. IPE or PPE consists of (a) __________________, (b) _________________,
(c) ______________, (d) ________________ and (e) ______________.

2. The protective measures can be classified as _________________ and
______________.

3. Which essential materials should be stocked the by NBC Shelters.
4. Which type of communication facilities should the shelters have collective for
protection ?

What You Have Learnt

• Simple and basic science of fission and fusion behind nuclear explosions and
how it is used in a nuclear bomb;

• The various military terms of types of bursts which are Exo atmospheric and
endo Atmospheric bursts of the nuclear bomb.
• What happens when a nuclear bomb is exploded. The bomb explodes into a
mushroom shaped cloud giving intense head and blast. Then there is the nuclear
fallout;

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