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.

_

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.

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