Indian Springs, Nevada

Indian Springs, Nevada

Item Information

Title:
Indian Springs, Nevada
Description:
United States Air Force Weather Station
Creator:
Federal Civil Defense Administration. Region I. 1951-1958
Photographer:
United States. Air Force
Name on Item:
Official U.S. Air Force Photo
Date:
April 20, 1952
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Photographic prints
Location:
National Archives at Boston
Box ID: 05 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Record Group 304: Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
Series:
Civil Defense Photographs, 1951-1961
Subjects:
Nuclear weapons testing
Weather
Measuring
Civil defense
Places:
Nevada > Clark (county) > Indian Springs
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; 8.5 x 11 in.
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Notes:
Title from accompanying material.
Text from item: Indian Springs AFB, Nevada, April 20. The USAP weather station shown above is situated neat the Control Point at the Atomic Energy Commission's Nevada Proving Grounds. During periodic continental tests weather personnel send many helium-filled Raob (radio-observer) balloons to the upper atmosphere to check on temperature, dew points, humidity and wind velocities as a continuing procedure for each atomic detonation. The radar tracking instrument, located on top of the test weather station, charts wind velocities and directions to determine post-detonation paths of radioactive clouds and suspended particles.
Notes (date):
Date from item or accompanying material.
Accession #:
824935
Identifier:
0878