Interdicting a nuclear-weapons project

Operations Research

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 866-877

  Brown, Gerald G ^a   Carlyle, W Matthew ^a   Harney, Robert C ^b   Skroch, Eric M ^c   Wood, R Kevin ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Naval Postgraduate School   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign policy; Government: Defense; Linear; Military: Targeting; Programming: Integer; Project management: CPM

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; GOVERNMENT: DEFENSE; LINEAR; MILITARY: TARGETING; PROGRAMMING: INTEGER;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PHASE MODULATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; TURNAROUND TIME; URANIUM;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 69949102998     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1080.0643     Document Type: Article

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