BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON NEVADA NUCLEAR TESTS
Outline of Contents
Maps, Charts and Photographs
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Photograph of Nuclear Cloud
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Section 1.
Responsibility for U. S, Nuclear Weapons Programs ....+--s
Atomic Energy Commission, Armed Forces, FCDA
Section 2.
Why Nuclear Weapons and Devices are Field Tested. . 1. . « «2 «
To Advance Weapons Development . 2. 2. 2. 2 2 2 2 ee cs ee ecw ween
Nine Developmental Purposes . .. 6 «eee es e+ ee ee eee eee ene
Designing Experimental Devices . 2.2. 2. 2 + ee ee ee eee we te wee
Need for Military Weapons Effects Tests’. 2. 2. 1. 6 © ee we se eo ew eee
Civil, Structural and Biomedical Experiments . . 2... 2 6 se ee ee oe
Summary of United States Nuclear Tests by Series ... eee eee e- 3
Section 3.
Origin, History and Value of Continental Testing . ...«e-
Trinity, 1945 2. 2 0 ee ee ee eee ew ee ee ee
First Developmental Tests in the Pacific .....2«
Selection of a Continental Site... 2. 2 2. se 0 2 ee
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