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Author(s):

(Item 253 from file: 103)
ERA-12-001433; EDB-86-185519
Kelley;

Levy

Title: Operation Greenhouse. Scientific Director’s report of atomic weapon
tests at Eniwetok, 1951. Annex 8.0. General report of blast studies on
aircraft
Corporate Source:

Massachusetts

Inst.

of Tech.,

Publication Date: 1 Apr 1985
p 25
Report Number(s):
AD-A-995303/5/XAB
Note: Extracted version of report dated Sep 51
Document

Type:

EDB8610

Availability: NTIS, PC A02/MF A0l.

Subfile:
BRA (Energy Research Abstracts).
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Publication: United States
Abstract: None.
Major Descriptars:

*AIRCRAFT

ENIWETOK;

GROUND LEVEL

EXPLOSIONS;

GRA

-- BLAST EFFECTS;

*NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -- BLAST EFFECTS

Broader Terms:

(USA)

Report

Language: English
Journal Announcement:

Descriptors:

Cambridge

ISLANDS;

LEVELS;

(NTIS NTS)

*GREENHOUSE PROJECT;

MARSHALL ISLANDS;

MICRONESIA;

NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; OCEANIA
Subject Categories: 450202*
-- Explosions & Explosives -- Nuclear -Weaponry -- (-1989)

10/5/554
(Item 254 from file: 103)
01861624
BERA-12-001432; EDB-86-185518
Title: Operation Greenhouse. Scientific Director’s report of atomic weapon
tests at Eniwetok, 1951. Annex 1.6, blast measurements. Part 3.
Pressure near ground level. Section 4. Blast asymmetry from aerial
photographs. Section 5. Balli-crusher-gauge measurements of peak
pressure
Corporate Source:

Publication Date:

Report Number(s):

Naval Ordnance Lab.,

1 Apr 1985

p 65

White Oak,

MD

(USA)

AD-A-995299/5/XAB

Note: Extracted version of report dated Feb 1952
Document Type: Report
Language: English
Journal Announcement: EDB8610

Availability: NTIS, PC A04/MF AOQl.

Subfile:
ERA (Energy Research Abstracts).
GRA (NTIS NTS)
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Publication: United States
Abstract: Aerial motion pictures from manned aircraft were taken of the
Dog, Basy, and George Shots and from a drone aircraft on Dog Shot to
determine whether asymmetries in the blast waves could be detected and
measured. Only one film, that taken of Dog Shot from a drone, was
considered good enough to warrant detailed analysis, but this failed to
yield any positive information on asymmetries. The analysis showed that

failure to obtain good arrival-time data arose from a number of cases,

but primarily from uncertainities in magnification and timing. Results
could only be matched with reliable data from blast-velocity switches
by use of large corrections. Asymnetries, if present, were judged to
have been too small or to have occurred too early to be detected with
the slow-frame speed used. Recommendations for better results include
locating the aircraft directly overhead at the time of burst and using
a camera having greater frame speed and provided with timing marks.

Major Descriptors: *BLAST EFFECTS -- PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; *GREENHOUSE
PROJECT; *NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -- BLAST EFFECTS; *NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -SHOCK WAVES; *SHOCK WAVES -- ASYMMETRY
Descriptors: GROUND LEVEL; VELOCITY
Broader Terms: EXPLOSIONS; LEVELS; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS

Subject Categories: 450202*

5003811

-- Explosions & Explosives -- Nuclear --

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