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Department of Energy: Nuclear Test Film - Operation
Greenhouse (1951).
- http://www.archive.org/details/gov.doe.0800009
Hacker, Barton C.: Elements of controversy: the Atomic
Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing,
1947-1974. University of California Press, 1994 - 614 pp.
Joint Task Force 3: Operation Greenhouse (1951). - 'This
test was carried out by the 8500 members of Joint Task Force Three;
men drawn from the Atomic Energy Commission, its contractors,
military, industrial, and educational laboratories, and from the
Army, Navy, and Air Force." The George experiment proved an
thermonuclear bomb was possible and led to a crash development
program of the "Super." The fusion contribution was roughly 25
kilotons equivalent yield. Item was the first test of the boosting
design principle, which involved increasing the yield of a fission
implosion weapon. The effect often approximately doubled the yield
for the same amount of fission fuel, effectively revolutionizing
efficiency in weight versus yield of each warhead, excluding a
dirty casing effects option of fast fission of uranium 238-lined
weapon casings.'
- http://www.archive.org/details/OperationGreenhouse1951
United States Nuclear Tests,
July 1945 through September 1992. U.S. Department of Energy Nevada Operations
Office, DOE/NV--209-REV 15, December 2000.