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General Report on Weapons Tests

Ground-Motion Studies on Operations IVY and CASTLE
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W. R. Perret

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Sandia

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Albuquerque, New Mexico
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February 1955

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This report has had the classified information removed and has been republished
in unclassified form for public release. This work was performed by Kaman Tempo
under contract DNAO01-79-C-0455 with the close cooperation of the Classification
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Operation IVY

Operation CASTLE

Ground-Motion Studies

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Ground motion produced by Mike shot of Operation Ivy (Project 6.5) was measured as

three components of acceleration at four ground ranges between 8000 and 114,000 ft.
Gauges were in sand below the water table at depths of about 17 ft. Similar
measurements were made on a massive concrete instrument shelter at about 30,000
ft from Ground Zero. Ground-motion data derived from shot 3 of Operation Castle
(Project 1.7) are presented in Chap. 2. These data, because of the low yield of
the shot, are inadequate for correlation with the results of other tests.
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