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.

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