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Eight (8) experimental programs were conducted as set forth in the JCS 1998
Minor additions and alterations to programs were made under authority grant--
ed the Commander, Joint Task Force THREE (CJTF-3).
has not been analyzed or evaluated.
Much of the experimental data
The conclusions presented herein are those that
can be drawn at the present time.
7.
PROGRAM 1.0 — LOS ALAMOS EXPERIMENTS
The objectives of this program were threefold: to measure the performance
of each of the weapons and devices described above; to increase bagic knowledge in
phenomenology such as blast, thermal and nuclear radiation; and to develop methods
of measuring weapon performance by simple, remote means,
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WEAPON PERFORMANCE
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of rise of the nuclear reaction) and yield,
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detonations agreed very closely to predicted values which indicated that cach
high explosive system reacted as expected,
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