Operation Hardtack Ii 1958

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Total Pages : 486 pages
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Download or read book Operation HARDTACK I, 1958 written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "HARDTACK I was an atmospheric nuclear weapon test series held at Johnston Island and in the Marshall Islands at Enewetak and Bikini atolls in 1958. This is a report of DOD personnel in HARDTACK with an emphasis on operations and radiological safety."--Abstract

Author : Frank H. Shelton
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ISBN 13 : 9781881816126
Total Pages : 68 pages
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Download or read book Reflections of a Nuclear Weaponeer written by Frank H. Shelton and published by . This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book Operation HARDTACK II, 1958 written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes the activities of an estimated 1,000 DoD personnel, both military and civilian, in Operation HARDTACK II, a nuclear testing series conducted in Nevada from 12 September to 30 October 1958. The series consisted of 37 events: 19 weapons tests and 18 safety experiments. DoD activities included scientific test participation, staff support, and air support. Radiological safety procedures were established and implemented to minimize individual radiation exposures.

Author : Jean Ponton
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Total Pages : 246 pages
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Download or read book Operation HARDTACK II, 1958 written by Jean Ponton and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes the activities of an estimated 1,000 DoD personnel, both military and civilian, in Operation HARDTACK II, a nuclear testing series conducted in Nevada from 12 September to 30 October 1958. The series consisted of 37 events: 19 weapons tests and 18 safety experiments. DoD activities included scientific test participation, staff support, and air support. Radiological safety procedures were established and implemented to minimize individual radiation exposures.

Author : Barton C. Hacker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520083233
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elements of Controversy written by Barton C. Hacker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics. Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics.

Author : L. M. Swift
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Total Pages : 112 pages
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Download or read book Operation Hardtack, Phase II written by L. M. Swift and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : L. M. Swift
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Total Pages : 38 pages
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Download or read book Postshot Disturbances and Surface Motions written by L. M. Swift and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postshot earth disturbances and surface displacements were measured as functions of time after two deep underground nuclear detonations using the magnetically recorded output of geophones and the sight readings of simple liquid-level gages as evaluation of the applicability of these measurement methods in detailed location of deep underground bursts subsequent to their general location by other means. The low yield of one shot and the unexpectedly high noise interference precluded establishing the limits of the geophone listening technique. However, the records obtained from the geophones and the liquid-level gages indicate that these techniques are feasible for second stage detection of underground bursts. Further tests of the techniques are recommended after modifications are made to instrumentation to reduce the noise interference in the geophones and to reduce the error in the liquid-level gages.

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Total Pages : 202 pages
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Download or read book United States Nuclear Tests written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document lists chronologically and alphabetically by name all nuclear tests and simultaneous detonations conducted by the United States from July 1945 through September 1992. Two nuclear weapons that the United States exploded over Japan ending World War II are not listed. These detonations were not "tests" in the sense that they were conducted to prove that the weapon would work as designed (as was the first test near Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945), or to advance nuclear weapon design, or to determine weapons effects, or to verify weapon safety as were the more than one thousand tests that have taken place since June 30,1946. The nuclear weapon (nicknamed "Little Boy") dropped August 6,1945 from a United States Army Air Force B-29 bomber (the Enola Gay) and detonated over Hiroshima, Japan had an energy yield equivalent to that of 15,000 tons of TNT. The nuclear weapon (virtually identical to "Fat Man") exploded in a similar fashion August 9, 1945 over Nagaski, Japan had a yield of 21,000 tons of TNT. Both detonations were intended to end World War II as quickly as possible. Data on United States tests were obtained from, and verified by, the U.S. Department of Energy's three weapons laboratories -- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; and Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Additionally, data were obtained from public announcements issued by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and its successors, the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration, and the U.S. Department of Energy, respectively.

Author : F. Gladeck
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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book For the Record written by F. Gladeck and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Mansfield Adams
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Total Pages : 90 pages
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Download or read book Summary Report of Strong Motion Measurements, Underground Nuclear Detonations written by William Mansfield Adams and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: