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"3-3.6 (4, .XGROUND TESTING, GENERAL" FOLDER
-. of a Rand report entitled ''A Method of Concealing "Inderground Nuclear
written by A. Latter,
R. LeLevier,
W. McMu:,:. and dated 30 March 1959.
—
E. Martinelli, and
They acknowledged the work that was
ee
undertake, , the suggestion of Edward Teller and state in their summary .
"It is showzéfeoretically that nuclear explosions can be effectively hidden in
large underground cavities.
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Anestimate of the effectiveness of the method
Kaha, :
:
.
indicates‘{ij—a yield of more than 300 KT could be made to look seismically
like a y yielu x 1 KT.
Experiments
with both chemical and nuclear explosions
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P
are needed tazest the theory.''
Fovinelas
set
Their introduction indicates that this information
uns
,
a
.
and the for-: “as and predictions made in this study are of vital importance in
connection
-:athe Geneva test Ban Conference and that the information used
last summ-- summer of 1958) is now known to be fallacious.