Nuclear Weapon Tests

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Under The Cloud

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Author : Richard Lee Miller
language : en
Publisher: Two-Sixty Press
Release Date : 1986

Under The Cloud written by Richard Lee Miller and has been published by Two-Sixty Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.

In "a chilling documentary history of America's above-ground nuclear tests conducted during the 1950s and early 1960s, Miller takes on the subject and universalizes it, at the same time giving it the flavor of a Dos Passos novel" ("Kirkus Reviews").

Nuclear Weapon Tests

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Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
language : en
Publisher: Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1988

Nuclear Weapon Tests written by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and has been published by Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.

How feasible and how vital is the achievement of a meaningful test limitation treaty? This book presents a wide range of authoritative expertise and opinion as an informed contribution to the debate among governmental experts and the informed public.

United States Nuclear Tests

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

United States Nuclear Tests written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Nuclear weapons categories.

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.

Grappling With The Bomb

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Author : Nic Maclellan
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2017-09-26

Grappling With The Bomb written by Nic Maclellan and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-26 with Political Science categories.

Grappling with the Bomb is a history of Britain’s 1950s program to test the hydrogen bomb, code name Operation Grapple. In 1957–58, nine atmospheric nuclear tests were held at Malden Island and Christmas Island—today, part of the Pacific nation of Kiribati. Nearly 14,000 troops travelled to the central Pacific for the UK nuclear testing program—many are still living with the health and environmental consequences. Based on archival research and interviews with nuclear survivors, Grappling with the Bomb presents i-Kiribati woman Sui Kiritome, British pacifist Harold Steele, businessman James Burns, Fijian sailor Paul Ah Poy, English volunteers Mary and Billie Burgess and many other witnesses to Britain’s nuclear folly.

Catalog Of Worldwide Nuclear Testing

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Author : Viktor Nikitovich Mikhaĭlov
language : en
Publisher: Begell House Publishers
Release Date : 1999

Catalog Of Worldwide Nuclear Testing written by Viktor Nikitovich Mikhaĭlov and has been published by Begell House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.

The Catalog of Worldwide Nuclear Testing is the first ever complete compilation of all nuclear tests. Containing various vital information and data on all 2,049 nuclear tests conducted by the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France, and China (and the recent tests in India and Pakistan), the Catalog presents a uniform classification analysis of the five nuclear weapon states, including the dynamics, yield, and methods of testing. This unique volume has been compiled by a team of the best specialists of the Russian nuclear weapons establishment, headed by the former Minister of Atomic Energy of Russia, Victor Mikhailov, and including the following experts: I. A. Andryushin, A. K. Chemyshev, R. I. Ilkaev, A. M. Matushchenko, L. D. Ryabev, V. G. Srukov, N. P. Voloshin, and Yu. A. Yudin."

Restricted Data

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Author : Alex Wellerstein
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2021-04-09

Restricted Data written by Alex Wellerstein and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-09 with History categories.

The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold War present. The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information and the newly discovered scientific facts that made such powerful weapons possible. The totalizing scientific secrecy that the atomic bomb appeared to demand was new, unusual, and very nearly unprecedented. It was foreign to American science and American democracy—and potentially incompatible with both. From the beginning, this secrecy was controversial, and it was always contested. The atomic bomb was not merely the application of science to war, but the result of decades of investment in scientific education, infrastructure, and global collaboration. If secrecy became the norm, how would science survive? Drawing on troves of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time through the author’s efforts, Restricted Data traces the complex evolution of the US nuclear secrecy regime from the first whisper of the atomic bomb through the mounting tensions of the Cold War and into the early twenty-first century. A compelling history of powerful ideas at war, it tells a story that feels distinctly American: rich, sprawling, and built on the conflict between high-minded idealism and ugly, fearful power.

Detection Of Nuclear Weapons And Materials

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Author : Jonathan Medalia
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 2010-03

Detection Of Nuclear Weapons And Materials written by Jonathan Medalia and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03 with Technology & Engineering categories.

(1) How Does Detection Work?; Current Detection Technol.; (2) Advanced Technol.: Nanocomposite Scintillators; GADRAS: Gamma-Ray Spectrum Analysis Application Using Multiple Algorithms; Computer Modeling to Evaluate Detection Capability; L-3 CAARS: Low-Risk Dual-Energy Radiography System; SAIC CAARS: Higher-Risk, Higher-Benefit Dual-Energy Radiography System; AS&E CAARS: Using Backscattered X-Rays to Detect Dense Material; Muon Tomography; Analyzing a Nuclear Weapon with Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence; Detecting SNM at a Distance; (3) Signatures of Plutonium, Highly Enriched Uranium, and Nuclear Weapons; Detecting Signatures of a Nuclear Weapon or SNM; Evasion of Detection Technol. Illus.

The Effects Of Nuclear Weapons

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Author : United States. Department of Defense
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962

The Effects Of Nuclear Weapons written by United States. Department of Defense and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Nuclear warfare categories.

1. General principles of nuclear explosions -- 2. Descriptions of nuclear explosions -- 3. Air blast phenomena -- 4. Air blast loading and target response -- 5. Structural damage from heat -- 6. Effects of surface and subsurface bursts -- 7. Thermal radiation and its effects -- 8. Initial nuclear radiation -- 9. Residual nuclear radiation and fallout -- 10. Radio and radar effects -- 11. Effects on personnel -- 12 Principles of protection.

Effects Of Nuclear Earth Penetrator And Other Weapons

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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2005-10-06

Effects Of Nuclear Earth Penetrator And Other Weapons written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-06 with Technology & Engineering categories.

Underground facilities are used extensively by many nations to conceal and protect strategic military functions and weapons' stockpiles. Because of their depth and hardened status, however, many of these strategic hard and deeply buried targets could only be put at risk by conventional or nuclear earth penetrating weapons (EPW). Recently, an engineering feasibility study, the robust nuclear earth penetrator program, was started by DOE and DOD to determine if a more effective EPW could be designed using major components of existing nuclear weapons. This activity has created some controversy about, among other things, the level of collateral damage that would ensue if such a weapon were used. To help clarify this issue, the Congress, in P.L. 107-314, directed the Secretary of Defense to request from the NRC a study of the anticipated health and environmental effects of nuclear earth-penetrators and other weapons and the effect of both conventional and nuclear weapons against the storage of biological and chemical weapons. This report provides the results of those analyses. Based on detailed numerical calculations, the report presents a series of findings comparing the effectiveness and expected collateral damage of nuclear EPW and surface nuclear weapons under a variety of conditions.

Developments In Technical Capabilities For Detecting And Identifying Nuclear Weapons Tests

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Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963

Developments In Technical Capabilities For Detecting And Identifying Nuclear Weapons Tests written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Disarmament categories.