BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON NEVADA NUCLEAR TESTS Outline of Contents Maps, Charts and Photographs Pag Photograph of Nuclear Cloud. ....%.e.se.e-esee Photograph of Shot Balloon. ...«secevercesrevr Inside Front Cove verve vere ere L Control Room within the main Control Point Bldg at NTS . . - 2 se» © 6 © © Wi List of All Full Scale Nuclear Detonations In Nevada... .- 2 6 « VAG ei Other United States,United Kingdom, and Russian Tests. . 2. «ee e+ ve ee | Control Point Building at Nevada Test Site. . . 2. es 2 e+ ee oe ee we we oe X Control Point of NTS from a Hillside View. . 2. 2. ee 2 ee ee eee ee eo Photograph of Camp Mercury, «2. 2 0 ee ee ewe eee rere eer even @ Chart of Headquarters Agencies and Nevada Test Organization. . « » «0 « oo 7 Chart of Test Director's Organization. .. . Photograph of Camp Desert Rock . ... «os Photograph of Underground Burst. . . «6s . * « « « « Lnside Back Cove : : : e e e e e * ° ° ee 7 e € ¢ e e ° ¢ e ee T 7“ €¢ : Map of Nevada Test Site Vicinity ... . 2 «es - e+ 6 « « « Back Cove Schematic Arrangement of Balloon Shot Area.. . Insert Between 38 & 3 Schematic Arrangement of Tower Shot Area, ...... . Insert Between 38 & 3 Subject Forward e e e © . ° e . ° s e e oe * e e * ° e o ° e e e e e e e s e e ° e e Section 1. Responsibility for U. S. Nuclear Weapons Programs .« .. «.« « « Atomic Energy Commission, Armed Forces, FCDA Section 2. Why Nuclear Weapons and Devices are Field Tested. . . « « e« « « To Advance Weapons Development . 2... + ee 2 ee co eo ec eee eewe Nine Developmental Purposes . 2... 26 eee 6 ee ee he we ee eee eee DeSigning Experimental Devices ... Pe ea a ee er Need for Military Weapons Effects Tests ee ee et ee hh hh hh OH Civil, Structural and Biomedical Experiments . .. 2. 6 2 e+ © © e we ee Summary of United States Nuclear Tests by Series ..- 2. ee eee - 3K Section 3. Origin, History and Value of Continental Testing . Trinity, 1945 . 2. © «© «© se se © we so wwe eee wo we owe First Developmental Tests in the Pacific . 2. 2. 2. ee © e es Selection of a Continental Site... 2. 2. 2. 2 2 ee ew ew ew ee Numbers and Types of Detonations . . 1. + 1. « «ee + e+ e+ © © . . «+ « « « wee eee se eo ore eee re © oe © oo Uses Made Gf Individual Nevada Tests... ee ee eee ere eve G& Costs of Nevada Tests . 2. 2 2 se ee ee eer ee eee ee eee eee Postponements . « Operating Controls « «es e+ e+ ee ee eh eo wo ...««s«oe-e2-+e-ecereevr evr eer wee vee oe wee veer ev ew eee eee & Claims Arising from Nevada Tests . . 2. + 2. +s» e ee cee ee ere eres e Suits in Federal Courts . .. +. +o. e + eee eee eee eee ee eee Value of a Continental Site to National Programs . . « « «+ 2* eee © @ AEC Weapons Laboratories . 6 » « e««s»+e«eee ee ee we we we ee ndpe A SHOT BALLOON AT NEVADA TEST SITE - iii - ( A