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Light Flash Produced by an Atmospheric Nuclear Explosion
Guy E. (Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) Barasch, 1979. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 190, Document 2.
An unclassified Los Alamos report of November 1979 on the double-flash light curve of atmospheric nuclear explosions, the physics the Vela bhangmeters were built to detect.
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Background on the double-flash signature.
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Barasch, G. E. (. A. S. L. (1979). Light Flash Produced by an Atmospheric Nuclear Explosion. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 190, Document 2. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB190/02.pdf
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Barasch, Guy E. (Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory). “Light Flash Produced by an Atmospheric Nuclear Explosion.” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book 190, Document 2 (1979).