Hippensteel, Robert G.
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Report No. 1085: Safety Tests of Nike-Hercules Missile Sites, 1959-11
Item
Identifier: 09.027
Overview
This report presents the results of two full-scale tests simulating an accidental warhead detonation within an underground storage magazine containing a normal compliment of six Nike-Hercules missiles equipped with T-45 warheads. The effects of the accident on the magazine, the underground personnel shelter adjacent to the storage room, and to eight conventional two-story houses (four of brick and four of frame construction) are evaluated. Peak pressures and positive impulses of the air blast...
Dates:
1959-11
Safety Tests of Nike-Hercules Missile Sites, 1959 - 1959
Item
Identifier: 2022.003.047
Dates:
1959 - 1959
