Research Catalog

Title

Shots DIABLO to FRANKLIN PRIME : the mid-series tests of the PLUMBBOB series, 15 July-30 August 1957 / Carl Maag, Jean Ponton.

Author

Maag, Carl R.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense, Defense Nuclear Agency, Nuclear Test Personnel Review, 1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ponton, Jean
• JRB Associates, sponsor.
• United States. Nuclear Test Personnel Review, sponsor.
• United States. Defense Nuclear Agency, issuing agency.

Description

200 pages : illustrations, figures, tables; 28 cm

Summary

This report describes the activities of DoD personnel, both military and civilian, in the eight mid-series shots of Operation PLUMBBOB, an atmospheric weapons testing series. The tests were conducted from 15 July 1957 through 30 August 1957 and involved participants from Exercise Desert Rock VII and VIII, AFSWP, AFSWC, and various AEC test groups. This volume also describes the radiological safety criteria and procedures in effect at the mid-series PLUMBBOB shots.

Series Statement

• Defense Nuclear Agency (U.S.) ; DNA-6006F
• United States. Nuclear Weapons Test Personnel Review. United States Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests.

Uniform Title

Defense Nuclear Agency (U.S.) ; DNA-6006F.

Subject

• Nuclear weapons > Testing
• Atomic bomb > Nevada > Testing
• Radioactive fallout > Nevada
• Atomic bomb > Testing
• Radioactive fallout
• Nevada

Genre/Form

• technical reports.
• Technical reports.
• Rapports techniques.

Note

• Cover title.
• "JRB Associates"--Rept. doc. p.
• "DNA 6006F."
• "Contract no. DNA 001-79-C-0473"--Rept. doc p.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 173-182.

OCLC

• ocm08665523
• 8665523
• SCSB-1392722

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library