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.)
Item
Yield
ke
Ess
Jangle U
Johnie Boy
Coulomb C
Buffalo 2
Bravo
Zuni
Tewa
Koon
Jangle $
Coulumb B
Smallboy
15
Mt
3.53Mt
5.01Mt
110
1.2
0.3
low
Feller II
Little
Feller fT
Trinity
Simon
Harry
Badger
Nancy
Annie
Humboldc
TumblerSnapper 5
TumblerSnapper 6
Met
Turk
Miller
DASA
Tompkins
Average
jf.
-61,3
-16
- 2.4
0
0
0.4
0.6
0.9
2.6
3.3
4,4
8.5
1700**
880
960
1300
350
480
1340
1710
930
390
1080
610
1340
900
530
1130
250
700%%*
1250
2170**
1800**
290
2080**
960
940
725
1620%**
330
1410
490
1300
1716
1170
340
980
785
1150
920
630
1215
310
560
_
low
10.7
160
450
175
135
20H
Low
19
43
32
23
24
16
7.8t
11.4
35
84
94
103
104
117
126
190
175
645
360
520
235
140
150
415
255
740
133
190° °
690
360
485
240
155
150
340
12
129
235
ll
22
43
133
142
142
185
155
235
450
245
175
265
235
185
private communication
reference 8
reference 9
derived from "fraction down" given in Reference 10.
except Johnie Boy to 1.0 R/hr,
3
185
155
235
Integrations to 0.5 R/hr
The scaled height of burst (4) is determined by dividing the actual height of burst in
feet by the cube root of the
total yield in kilotons.
¢
i
*
Ko
(ft/kt '~)*
1.2
1.2
0.5
0.5
Little
Heffter -~
Miller -DASA
-~Tompkins-~
Scaled Height
of Burst
(A)
Heffter
Value x (0.75)* x 2900:
week
Reduced from Miller's original 990 by excluding data at distances beyond the 0.5 R/hr
contour.
not included in average.