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Strategic Weapons: Nuclear Weapons Targeting Process

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 27, 1991
Report No. NSIAD-91-319FS
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Summary:

This unclassified version of a classified report describes the Defense Department's process for formulating its strategic weapons targeting policy and translating that policy into a nuclear war plan--the Single Integrated Operational Plan. GAO provides information on the (1) relationship between the strategic nuclear targeting process and the determination of requirements for nuclear weapons and related delivery systems, (2) level of civilian oversight, and (3) categories and types of targets. These strategic nuclear weapons systems, commonly known as the triad, include land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and strategic bombers armed with nuclear bombs and missiles.

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