Trinity

By Bainbridge, K. T.

Book Id: WPLBN0000700624
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 4.20 MB.
Reproduction Date: 2006

Title:	Trinity
Author:	Bainbridge, K. T.
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Energy, Energy and research series
Collections:	Department of Energy Collection
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Excerpt
Excerpt: PREFACE; This report is intended as a comprehensive record of the July 16, 1945 atomic bomb test at the Alamogordo Air Base. Sections 1-5 describe in detail the events leading up to ?Zero,? the moment the bomb was detonated. Section 6, which was originally intended as a summary only of the radiation observations at Trinity, was not written until the summer of 1946. During the intervening time, the airburst test at Bikini was made, and it was considered useful that a comparison be included between this later test and the Trinity data. Sections 7-10 summarize all other experimental observations made at the Trinity test. Section 11, by the editor of this report, is relative to possible future atomic bomb tests that might be scheduled to investigate the behaviour of bombs of a design different from the Model 2 Implosion Bomb used at Trinity, Nagasaki, and Bikini.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: INITIAL PREPARATIONS FOR THE TEST -- Introduction -- Test Planned -- Choice of a Site -- Approval of Base -- Camp and Test Site Construction of -- Jumbo and Recovery Methods -- Expansion of the Trinity Program, March - May 1945 -- 1OO-TON TNT CALIBRATION AND REHEARSAL SHOT -- Plan and Organization Firing of 100-Ton Shot -- Results of the 100-Ton Shot -- Report on First Trinity Test -- Purpose of Test -- General Character of the Test -- Program of Measurement and Observation -- Organization for Carrying Out the Program -- Behavior of the Implosion