Within the limitations of the above precepts a Military Effects
Tests Program comprised of projects det. iled in the following

sections of this handbook was evolved. Fach set of allied projects has
been placed in an individual program. The general objectives of the
individual programs are as follows:
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Director - LCDR W. L. Carlson, USN

) determine air pressures as a function of distance in the

air near yielddetonations,

2. To: obtain data on the occurrence of a precursor blast wave
formation from high yield detonations.
3. To determine the time characteristics of air overpressure as
a function of distance from surface zero for high yield weapons in
order to confirm the!validity of scaling laws.
4. To determine the dynamic pressure of the shock wave and
after-wind velocities for; high yield detonations.

5. To obtain information on the pressure-time history of wmderwater shock for high yielddetonations on the surface of shallow water.
6. To determine the-trangmission of acoustic pressure signals
generated by high yield detonaticne in water.

7. To determine waterwave phenomena from the surface burst of
high yield weapons in shallow\water.
8. To determine ground|accelerations at distances relatively
close to surface zero for high yieli-detonstions,

1.3 PROGRAM 2 -

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1.3.1 Objectives

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1. To determine the time~intensity characteristics and total
dosage of gamma radiation as a function of time” and position for
surface detonations of high yield devices.
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2. To determine the nature and distribution] of residual radioactive contamination resulting from the surface detonation of high
yield devices.

3. To determine the neutron flux and energy distribution as a
function of distance for the surface detonation of high yield devices.
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PROGRAM 3 - STRUCTURES

CAPT N, E, Kingsley, USN

1.4.1 Objectives
1. To determine as a function of time the loading imposed by
the blast wave from a high yield device upon an idealized structure.
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