Special Weapons Project.;
Major Descriptors: *NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS;
*NUCLEAR WEAPONS -- TESTING
Descriptors: ENIWETOK; MANAGEMENT; OPERATION; PLANNING; SECURITY
Broader Terms: EXPLOSIONS; ISLANDS; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MICRONESIA;
WEAPONS
Subject Categories:
450200*
-- Military Technology,
Defense -- Nuclear Explosions & Explosives
10/5/868
00668321
Title:
(Item 568 from file:
EDB-80-107847
Weaponry,
103)
Operation Sandstone. Nuclear explosions.
1948.
OCEANIA;
;
& National
ae
TG 7.6 operations.
Operation report. Phases A, B, C, D and E.
Sandstone report no.
Joint Task Force Seven, Washington, DC (USA)
Corporate Source:
43
Publication Date: 20 Mar 1948
p 301
Report Number(s):
AD-A-078570/9
Document Type: Report
Language: English
Journal Announcement: EDB8005
Availability: NTIS, PC AA14/MF A0Ql.
Subfile:
NTS
(NTIS).
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Publication: United States
Abstract: This document outlines the radiological safety procedures
developed for and followed during the Operation SANDSTONE Nuclear
Explosions.;
Major Descriptors: *NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -- SAFETY; *NUCLEAR WEAPONS -TESTING
Descriptors: CONSTRUCTION; CONTAMINATION; DAMAGE; ENIWETOK; PERSONNEL;
RADIOLOGY
Broader Terms: EXPLOSIONS; ISLANDS; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MEDICINE; MICRONESIA;
NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OCEANIA; WEAPONS
Subject Categories: 450200*
-- Military Technology,
Defense -- Nuclear Explosions & Explosives
10/5/869
Weaponry,
& National
(Item 569 from file: 103)
00668320
EDB-80-107846
Title: Atomic weapons tests, Operation Sandstone. 1948. Volume I.
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Sandstone report no. 1
Corporate Source:
Joint Task Force Seven, Washington, DC (USA)
Publication Date: 16 Jun 1948
p 51
Report Number(s):
AD-A-078563/4
Document Type: Report
Language: English
Journal Announcement:
Availability:
Subfile:
NTIS,
Report to
EDB8005
PC AAO4/MF AOl.
NTS (NTIS).
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Publication: United States
.
Abstract: This report covers the operations of Joint Task Force Seven
necessary to the accomplishment of its assigned mission: the
construction of an atomic weapons proving ground and the conduct of
tests of atomic weapons early in 1948 at the Eniwetok proving ground.
The tests consisted of statically detonating by remote control three
atomic bombs of new design, located on the top of 200-foot steel
towers.
The
scientific and technical aspects of the tests,
which
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involved measurement of the explosions and their effect by
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instrumentation, are not covered in detail in this report. In mountingc
this operation the following fundamental considerations were of primar¢g>
influence in the formulation of plans and organization: (a) The tests tm
would provide the Armed Forces with an invaluable opportunity to
participate in atomic weapon development; would therefore prove an
excellent training vehicle; and would, from the overall viewpoint, be
of inestimable value in the gain to national preparedness and security.
(b) Although the Commander, Joint Task Force Seven, was charged with
responsibility for the conduct of the entire operation, Standstone was
primarily a scientific test with the Armed Forces in a supporting role.