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Operation CASTLE
Summary Report of the Commander, Task Unit 13 Military Effects, Programs 1-9
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PROGRAM ELEMENT, PROJECT, TASK
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Weapons Effects Tests
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Oneadauart ore. Field AND ond
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Armed Forces Special Weapons Project
7 January30,1959
Sandia Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Approved for public release; unlimited distribution.
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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 DNA001-79-C-0455 with the close cooperation of the Classification
Management Division of the Defense Nuclear Agency.
19. KEY YORDS (Continue on reverse side if necettary and Identify by block number)
Operation CASTLE
Military Effects
Shock Parameters
Initial Neutron
Gamma Radiation
Multimegaton Air Blast
Radiation Exposure
Blast Damage
20. ACSTRACT (Continue on reverse wide I necessary and Identify by block number)
Operation Castle consisted of six nuclear detonations at the Eniwetok Proving Ground
during the period 1 March to 14 May 1954. Two were surface or near-surface land shots:
one on a natural island and the other on a man-made island at the end of a causeway.
The other four shots were fired on barges: two anchored in reef craters from previous
shots and the other two anchored in the lagoon proper.
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The Department of Defense (DOD) military-effect program consisted of 37 projects
divided among six planned programs and one program (biomedical) added in the field; in
addition, one Los Alamos Scientific
Laboratory
(LASL)
program (thermal radiation) ) was
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