BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON NEVADA NUCLEAR TESTS Outline of Contents Maps, Charts and Photographs Pag Photograph of Nuclear Cloud _ Photograph of Shot Balloon . . . . a « ee e ‘ eee a ee e ee @ @ © ee ws @ ee @ Inside Front Cove ee ee i Control Room within the main Control Point Bldg at NTS . . 2. « «© «© «© «© @ «@ VE List of All Full Scale Nuclear Detonations In Nevada. . .- . - « e « Vili & i Other United States,United Kingdom, and Russian Tests. . « « « « » s ee « Control Point Building at Nevada Test Site. . 2. 2. 2. ee ee se ee se ew eo X Control Point of NTS from a Hillside View. . « 2 ee © ee ee oe ee we ow XE Photograph of Camp Mercurye «2 2. 0 0 es ee se se ee eee ere eer eee fb Chart of Headquarters Agencies and Nevada Test Organization. . . . « « © oe 7 Chart of Test Director's Organization. .. ,. Photograph of Camp Desert Rock . . . .s«e. Photograph of Underground Burst. ». .. +. -s . ° e e « e e Inside Back Cove Map of Nevada Test Site Vicinity . .. 2... © eo es eo © e oe ~€6Back Cove Schematic Arrangement of Balloon Shot Area.. » + » Insert Between 38 & 3 o e e e . e e e e e a e eo a e . ee 7 2 oe . @ s a t * a e e ee 7 Schematic Arrangement of Tower Shot Areas .«. « « »« « « » Insert Between 38 & 3 Subject oo Forward « « e« cseeeece ewe eo een ecw ee te tet ete tl ht hl 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 Numbers and Types of Detonations . . 1... ee ees we we ee eee ee ee ee ee ewes ew ww we ww et eee ee eee oe Uses Made Gf Individual Nevada Tests . 2. ee eee eee eee re Costs of Nevada Tests . . 1. 2 2 es ee ee PostponementS « « 6 « « © «© © «0c ew we ww Operating Controls . . «sce ee 0 oe ee Claims Arising from Nevada Tests . . 2. 2 2. 2» eee ee we eee ee te wee ewe we we ee wo wwe er e eee ee cee O& we ee ewe wh wl he reeves erev ese Suits in Federal Courts .....:s «eee ec rece reese eve see Value of a Continental Site to National Programs . ...se+-eesrerel AEC Weapons Laboratories . 2... 6 «+260 cee ee eee ee ce eee j “EL, eid rp OF A SHOT BALLOON AT NEVADA TEST SITE - iii - A