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OPERATION HARDTACK
Project 1.4 - PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CRATERS

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FROM NEAR-SURFACE NUCLEAR DETONATIONS

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A. W. Patteson

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Special Projects Branch
U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Labs
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Headquarters Field Command
Defense Atomic Support Agency
Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico

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May 10, 1960
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SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES

This report has had the classified information removed and has been republished

in unclassified form for public release. This work was performed by Kaman Tempo
under contract DNA001-83-C-0286 with the close cooperation of the Classification

Management Division of the Defense Nuclear Agency.
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Operation HARDTACK
Craters Characteristics
Nuclear Detonations

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The objective of this project was to measure and correlate with existing data the
physical characteristics of craters (radius, depth, lip height and width, throwout,
and permanent verticl ground-surface displacement surrounding the crater) resulting
from near-surface nuclear detonations.

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