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Photography on the aase motion cameras showed pronounced pre-shock dust

on Engebi, about four miles distance from sero. This is a reascusble thermal
effect; despite the initially zero height of burst, the redius of the fireball was in the onfer of 1 mile at this time; it probably hed alrendy risen

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to sufficient height to provide an appreciable angle of incidence for therml
radiation on the ground.
A beta densitometer trace from Kirinion shows enormous dust~-losading of
the shock wave, but no prre-shock dust-loading.,

By itself, the shock wave

density would be about 1.40 tines normal air density at this pressure level;
this record shows that the density reached a maximm of 8.0 tines norm)
eeveral seconés after shock arrival.

It suggests even worse dust-loading

than usually cbeerved om atom bombs, perhaps due to the failure of gravity

to seale in such long duration blast waves.

Canbeiige Research Center reports fast rise tines in free air. This is

egsin consistent with the theory of surface effects, which predicted that

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Pertinent menguremente were made by LASL in 6.40 - “Water Waves, Shallow”

6.7Ta - “Underwater Pressures, Seep", and Sandia Corporation in Project 6.7b -

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and Scrippe Institute Project 6.4 ~ “Sen Waven"; by Bureau of Ebips, Project

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Bo quantitative results are yet available.

Predictions for wive heights are contained in J-9543 by George White, "Scaling
Yor Surface Explosiona in Sbalicw Water", (1AS1).

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Bakery of LASL reports a perceptible wave in the order of a foot near Parry,

and & few feet nesy Ronit. These resulte are in reasonable agreement with the
predictions by White. Due to damage to the camera no record wes cbtained on

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