TABLE 1.
SOME CALCULATED K-VALUES FROM WEAPON TESTS
(Based on field measurements that include terrain roughness effects,
and which were not corrected for instrument response.)
Ttem
Yield
kt
Ess
Jangle U
Johnie Boy
Coulomb C
Buffalo 2
Bravo
Zuni
Tewa
Koon
Jangie §
Coulumb B
Scaled Height
of Burst
OQ)
Heffter
15
Mt
3.53Mt
5.O1Mt
110
1.2
0.3
Smallboy
low
low
low
Trinity
19
Simon
Harry
Badger
Nancy
Annie
Humboldt
TumblerSnapper 5
TumblerSnapper 6
Met
Turk
Miller
DASA
-61.3
-16
- 2.4
0
0
0.4
0.6
0.9
2.6
3.3
4.4
1300
350
10.7
160
450
175
135
230
i1.4
190
75
255
133
190
8.5
35
1700**
880
960
480
7OO#E*
645
43
32
23
24
16
7,8t
84
94
103
104
117
126
360
520
235
140
150
415
12
129
235
11
22
43
133
142
142
185
155
235
1250
2170%%
1800**
290
2080**
960
940
725
1620%**
330
740
450
245
175
265
except Johnie Boy to 1.0 R/hr,
1410
490
1300
1710
1170
340
980
785
1150
920
630
1215
310
560
690
360
485
240
155
150
340
235
185
Tompkins-- derived from "fraction down" given in Reference 10.
185
155
235
Integrations to 0.5 R/hr
£
The scaled height of burst (A) is determined by dividing the actual height of burst in
feet by the cube root of the total yield in kilotons.
Value > (0.75) x 2900:
wee
Reduced from Miller's original 990 by excluding data at distances beyond the 0.5 R/hr
contour.
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Average
1340
1710
930
390
1080
610
1340
900
530
1130
250
Heffter -- private communication
Miller -- reference 8
DASA
-- reference 9
*
Tompkins
2.13.
(its ~)*
1.2
1,2
0.5
0.5
Little
Feller If
Little
Feller T
Ko
not included in average.