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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1951
Army To Set Off Non-Atomic Blast Today
Dugway, Utah (U.S.) The Army prepared to set off the biggest man-made non-atomic blast in history about 11 a.m. today.
A deeply imbedded charge of 320,000 pounds of T.N.T. will be exploded in western Utah wasteland in an experiment to determine the effects of a heavy underground explosion on target buildings and bridges.
The explosion will have about one-fifth the energy of an atomic bomb.
Newsmen and press photographers were restricted to a four-mile safety line from the blast.
Army engineers directing "operation underground" said that the carefully controlled and measured explosion of 160 tons of powder would be detonated as planned unless unexpected storms interfere.
Security restrictions prevent exact descriptions of the explosion site simulated targets constructed nearby, and precise results of the experiment; but authorities said that the test would simulate the behavior and shock waves of a deeply buried bomb. The concrete and steel structures have the same general resistance as regular factory or home walls or bridge foundations.
"Last summer in New Mexico, penetration tests were made by dropping inert bombs," explained Lt. Col. C. Haug, head of the Sacramento Army engineers' district. "We know how deep a bomb will go. Now what we want to find out is exactly what happens when it goes off. By using heavily instrumented, buried charges we should be able to find out."
When today's dry clay test and later wet clay, sand, sandstone, limestone, and granite experiments are finished, engineers will have data that would permit designing of structures to withstand a bomb of any known strength.
Offensively, the results could be used to calculate what explosive—and how much—would be necessary to knock out any enemy target.
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axial cables lead from the explosion site to the buttersoot-colored cleared space on "White Sage flat" to recording trailers where stresses and strains will be measured carefully. High-speed cameras will be trained on the T.N.T. pit and operated by remote control to catch all phases of the test.
May 22,1951
Official Bulletin
Parking regulations will be enforced in zones and Jawahawk drive during and following the examination period. Spring semester permits expire noon, Saturday, June 9. Summer session permits will be mailed to staff about Thursday, June 1. Students may apply or reapply now for summer session permits. Applications to be submitted at the Parking committee office, center door of Robinson gym.
Red Peppers: Union Bookstore will pay $5.00 for used sweaters that are clean and in good condition.
I.S.A. Movie at Granda, tonight
and Wednesday, Ticket No. 6.
Chess club, 7 tonight. English room, Union. Important for those wishing Summer Session chess.
A. F.R.O.T.C. banquet for cadets being commissioned and their guests. 6:45 tonight, Hawk's Nest, Union.
Seniors: exchange your blue receipt for a ticket to senior class breakfast by Wednesday. May 22, in Dean of Men's office.
Rider bureau, service lists now in Unibus. Please sign now if you want ride or passengers. S.U.A. office or rostess desk.
The scientific preparations were handled under engineers' contract by specialists from Engineering Research associates of St. Paul, Stanford Research institute of Menlo Park, Calif., and the University of Denver.
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