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Nuclear Test Film - Operation Sandstone - Blast Measurement

49 kt · 1948 · Enewetak Atoll · 3 Hiroshimas

The blast-measurement record of Operation Sandstone (1948): the gauge lines, pressure instruments and high-speed photography used to quantify the overpressure and thermal output of the X-Ray, Yoke and Zebra shots.

Blast and thermal data gathered here fed directly into the weapons-effects manuals that would later be used to plan civil-defense tests against mock American towns.