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(continued)

The next case we thought oupht to be considered to sstisfy

the

people who might says "What would happen if we had a thubderstora
immediately — not an hour or two later, as suggested befhre — but

ocourring right at the tine of the explosion?®

I tried

visualize what would happen here if we were to consider

fhat the

borb went off on a thundery afternoon, in which we have

gonvectively

unetable conditions,

J say now be saying sousthing whicl

may not

be in agreement with everybody here who has studied thungerstorss,
Let's say tentatively that we could have a condition

whege

only a

small displacement vertically in the stem could set off
storm at this point.

I should say here, how, that this

in the stem that the thunderstorm would start, because

thunderje definitely
tie tine

aequence for the development of a thunderstorm is in the lorder of

one-half heur to sore then an hour, whereas, this mushroga cloud
goes Sooming on up and reaches its ceiling at about fivelor

minutes,

six

Kow, if this thunderstora were to develop hareg we would

have essentially the same story that we had before, the a
difference now being that the debris micht be

incorpa:

upper part of the thunderstore system iteslf. Since this

4 in the

is well

above the minus 20° iecthern, we would expect this to be noth
but fee particles and, as I understand the picture which

been

gathered frou radar etudies and flights through thandersthras, we

do not expect this material to fall down to the ground,

Yecause

the ice particlea in the upper part of the thunderstorm grow
slowly,

fo then we can say that in these two cases of

very

thnnderstorzs

we do not get rainont cf radioactive material by the thumerstors

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