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Rossi's ray catcher at-Volcano Ranch is an array of scintillation counters that gives electrical signals whenever fast-moving particles hit it. If a shower looks interesting, its record is transferred to tabulator cards and analyzed by a computer at Kirtland Air Force Base. The final answer tells the ray's energy when it hit the top of the atmosphere and caused the shower...
...gave the record sheet (No. 026508) to Dr. John Linsley, one of her immediate superiors at the Volcano Ranch installation, but he put it aside for more pressing matters. Seven weeks ago it was processed and sent to the Kirtland com puter-thence back to Volcano Ranch for final appraisal...
...shoes at B.M.D. will be his deputy, Brigadier General Osmond J. Ritland, 49, an old Air Corps test pilot who handled a long line of research and development assignments until 1950, when he was made commander of the Air Force Special Weapons Center's Test Group (Atomic) at Kirtland Air Force Base, N. Mex. Until 1953, when he went off to Washington to study at the Armed Forces Industrial College, Ritland was responsible for the air phase of continental nuclear testing, got his assignment under Schriever...
...miss, Quarles added, was the result of "human error." For months before the drop the B-52's crew, drawn from the elite special-weapons test group at Kirtland Air Force Base, had made practice runs over the target. But when the time came for the actual firing pass, the crew, probably jittery over the effect the multimegaton burst might have on the bomber itself, failed to correct a navigation error that threw the plane off course...
...Kirtland...