Broader Terms: EXPLOSIONS; Subject Categories: 450202* Weaponry -- (-1989) 10/5/6553 01522677 NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -- Explosions & Explosives -- Nuclear ~~ (Item 353 from file: 103) ERA~10-010342; EDB-85-029442 Author(s); Frederick, J.D. Title: Operation Crossroads. Atomic Bomb Tests. Volume 5, Appendix VIII. Final report of Army ground group Corporate Source: Joint Task Force One, Washington, Publication Date: 27 Aug 1946 p 213 Report Number(s): AD-367506/3; XRD-153 Note: See also Volume 4, Appendix 7, AD-367 507 Document Type: DC / (USA) Report Language: English Journal Announcement: EDB&8&412 Availability: NTIS, PC Al0/MF AO1. Subfile: ERA (Energy Research Abstracts). Country of Origin: United States Country of Publication: United States Abstract: Chemical Warfare test items displayed in normal weather packaging and boxing withstood the effects of the atomic bomb. Dark colored containers were susceptible to the intense heat. Light colored containers, excepting rough wood surfaces, in the same area suffered no damage. Thin pliofilms could not withstand the heat at distances of 2300 yards or less from the blast. Plastics, as used in the containers of CWS Medical Kits, were susceptible to blistering and charring at distances of 1500 yards from the blast. One layer of flashproof cloth did not provide protection from the flash heat. Double and triple layers gave protection as close as 1000 yards. Major Descriptors: *NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -- BLAST EFFECTS; *NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -- THERMAL RADIATION Descriptors: CROSSROADS PROJECT; PACKAGING; SHIELDING Broader Terms: ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; RADIATIONS Subject Categories: Weaponry -- 450202* -- Explosions & Explosives -- Nuclear -- (-1983) 10/5/654 (Item 354 from file: 103) 01522675 ERA-10-010338; EDB-85-029440 Title: Operation Crossroads. Tests Able and Baker. group final report Corporate Source: , Joint Task Force One, Publication Date: 18 Oct 1946 Report Number(s): AD-367502/2; Document Type: Report Language: English Journal Announcement: EDB&412 p 277 XRD-157 Washington, Bureau of aeronautics DC (USA) * Availability: NTIS, PC Al3/MF AOl. Subfile: ERA (Energy Research Abstracts}. Country of Origin: United States Country of Publication: United States Abstract: Test data are summarized on airburst (Test Baker) (Test Able) nuclear explosion tests of naval aircraft. and underwater The Bureau of Aeronautics target aircraft exposure plans for Test ABLE had as their objective the determination of the effects of the atomic bomb upon aircraft as a function of distance from the center of the burst. Of the 73 aircraft originally provided for the air burst forty remained usable for the underwater bomb test. These forty aircraft comprised nineteen undamaged, ten lightly damaged and eleven moderately to heavily damaged aircraft which were considered, however, to be satisfactory test items. Major Descriptors: *NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -- BLAST EFFECTS Descriptors: CROSSROADS PROJECT; RADIOACTIVITY; THERMAL RADIATION; VULNERABILITY Broader Terms: ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; RADIATIONS ur po Op ony ca Co urs