"beeper"™ pilot
Pilot operator of the radio equipment used
to control drone aircraft, On testing
missions, beeper pilot was aboard the
"mother" planes, (or control aircraft),
beta particle
A form of radioactivity in which betaparticles are emitted from the radioactive
body.
boosted weapon
A weapon to which some gaseous substance
has been added such as deuterium, tritiun,
or lithium hydride to produce significant
increase in fissioning and consequent
increase in yield,
boosting
If a large supply of neutrons is suddenly
injected into a system undergoing fission,
while neutron miltiplication is still
occuring (before appreciable expansion has
taken place), the total number of fissions
and thus the efficiency and energy yield
will be greatly increased, The first test
of boosting was made in the ITEM Shot during
Operation GREENHOUSE, 1951,
calorimeter
Apparatus for measuring quantities of heat,
Class A weapons
A term commonly applied to me of the four
(or Class B, C,
or D)
clean weapon
general classes of thermonuclear weapons,
specified by the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
for development.
A weapon so designed that upon detonation
the amount of contaminating material, in
the form of either fission fragments or
irradiated material (or both), is relativel
low by comparison with other possible design
variations of the same mark numbered weapon,
A weapon may also be "clean" by comparison
with different mark numbered weapons of the
same general yield,
cloud tracking
The process of following the nuclear cloud
with aircraft in order that sampling aircraft
could move readily vectored into the cloud
at the exact times required for obtaining
the specific samples,
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