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Project 6.1 = Accurate Location of Electromagnetic Pulse Source E. A. Lewis
OBJECTIVE
To utilize the electromagnetic signal originating from nuclear
weapon detonations to determine ground zero of detonation.
Secondarily
to obtain the yield data that is available in the bomb pulse,
PROCEDURE
location of ground zero is made by use of inverse Loran principle.
The exact time the bomb pulse is received at various stations is recorded.
The exact time difference in receipt of the electromagnetic
pulse between two stations will be used to determine a hyperbolic curve
which runs through ground zero.
The point of intersection of two or
more curves determines ground zero.
There are two systems,
One of the systems is known as the long
base line system and the other, the short base line system,
system has two sets of stations,
Each
The long base line has one set of
stations locatei in the Hawaiian Islands (Midway, Palmyra and Maul)
with synchronizing antenna station at Haiku, Maui, and the other set
of stations in the States (Harlingen, Texas; Blytheville, Arkansas;
Kinross, Michigan ani Rome, New York) with synchronizing antenna
station at Cape Fear, North Carolina.
The short base lines have one
set of stations located in the Hawaiian area (Kona, Hawaii; Papa,
Hawaii; and Red Hill, Maui) the other set in California (Pittsburg,
Woodland, ani Maryville).
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