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Project 6.1 - Accurate Location of an Electromagnetic Pulse Source ~ EA. Lewis
OBJECTIVE
To utilize the electromagnetic signal originating from nuclear weapon
detonations to determine ground zero of detonation,
Secondarily to obtain
the yield data that is available in the bomb pulse.
PROCEDURE
Location of ground zero is made by use of an inverse Loran principle.
The exact time the bomb pulse is received at verious stations is recorded.
The exact time difference in receipt of the electromagnetic pulse between
two stations will be used to determine a hyperbolic curve which runs through
ground zero,
The point of intersection of two or more curves determines
ground zero.
There ere two systems.
One of the systems is known as the long base
line syster and the other the short base line system.
sets of stations,
Fach system ‘has two
The long base line has one set of stations located in
the Hawaiian Islands (Midwey, Palmyra and Mavi) with synchronizing antenna
stetion at Eaiku, Maui, end the other set of stations in the States
(Harlington, Texas; Blytheville, Arkansas; Kinross,
Michigan and Rome, New
York) with synchronizing antenna station at Cape Fear, North Carolina.
The
short base lines have one set of stations located in the Hawaiian erea (Kona,
Hawaiis Papa, Hawaii; and Red Hill, Maui) the other set in California (Pittsburg,
Woodland, and Maryville).
RESULTS
All stations in both the long and short base lines successfully received
and recorded the wave forr of the electromagnetic pulse emanating from the
bomb detonation.
Line of position and fix errors will be reported in the
Project 6,1 report,
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