Cue for Survival: Operation Cue, A.E.C. Nevada Test Site, May 3, 1955; a ReportU.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 162 страници |
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Страница 118 - To the making of these fateful decisions, the United States pledges before you — and therefore before the world — its determination to help solve the fearful atomic dilemma — to devote its entire heart and mind to find the way by which the miraculous inventiveness of man shall not be dedicated to his death, but consecrated to his life.
Страница 142 - The small calorie is the heat required to raise one gram of water one degree centigrade at or near the maximum density.
Страница 86 - ... through the visible to the ultraviolet and beyond. Much of this radiation is absorbed by the air immediately surrounding the bomb, with the result that the air itself becomes heated to incandescence. In this condition the detonated bomb begins to appear, after a few millionths of a second, as a luminous sphere called the Ball of Fire.
Страница 113 - ... solve it. You can live it, you can enjoy it, you can merge into it. . .and doors upon doors open and it is an endless journey of revelations; greater and greater revelations are waiting for you... but it is not a riddle that can be solved. The more you enter into it, the more unknowable it becomes. The more you know - the more you know that you don't know.
Страница 48 - Cue size there is little or no cratering effect in the ground. Thus, the mass effect of the -earth appears to offer the maximum protection for the storage of vital records. However, in subsurface records storage areas such as basements of structures there could be secondary damage resulting from debris, fire, and water. Final conclusions and recommendations will be inserted when other data are available, including nuclear and thermal radiation...
Страница 14 - In addition, information was sought on the effectiveness of white pigmented fireretardant coating material in comparison to black pigmented material of the same chemical composition. Various methods have been used for about a century by the railroad industry for preserving its timber structures.
Страница 88 - ... the exclusive eye-witness account. He witnessed the explosion of both atomic bombs at Bikini and is the author of the book, Dawn Over Zero — the Story of the Atomic Bomb. At first the rising Ball of Fire carries the particles upward. An ascending and expanding column of smoke is observed to form. It consists of water droplets, radioactive oxides of the fission products, and more or less debris, largely determined by the height of the explosion. This is the spectacular mushroomshaped cloud,...
Страница 6 - The 2-story frame house at 7,800 feet suffered relatively heavy damage, but its condition was such that it could be made available for emergency shelter from the elements by shoring and not too extensive repairs.
Страница 48 - These theories arc indicated by the pieces of metal found and some recovered units. The metal appears to have been twisted and telescoped with a tearing along the welded bead line. On the recovered units there were holes punched in the surface exposed to the blast.
Страница 18 - In natural fibers, the dark colors caused more damage than lighter shades. Black wool was severely damaged. Cottons were damaged to a much greater extent than wool, and on the cotton prints the dark designs were burned out. Heavier fabrics stood up better; fircproofing finishes appeared to have some value, but did not necessarily prevent scorching.