Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 9/27/83; site hplabsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!hplabsb!hlee From: hlee@hplabsb.UUCP (Ho John Lee) Newsgroups: net.physics,net.misc Subject: Re: Those funny lines Message-ID: <2568@hplabsb.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 12:40:19 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsb.2568 Posted: Fri Oct 12 12:40:19 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 08:55:32 EDT References: <170@hocsj.UUCP> <412@amd.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 16 The US Government Printing Office publishes a book called "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons." I think it was last revised around 1978. It is a compilation of (unclassified) results from all those test blasts in the 50's and 60's. There is a fairly long chapter about the effects of shock waves in land, water, and air, but I don't remember whether they talk about vertical lines. Anyway, it's full of information, (~300pp, hardbound), cheap ($14.95), and you also get one of those "Dr. Strangelove" bomb effect calculators to scare your friends with ("Let's see...100KT air burst at 6000 feet..."). -- Ho John Lee, HP Labs UUCP: ...!hplabs!hlee ARPA: hlee.hplabs@csnet-relay