Misty Castle: High-Explosive Nuclear Effects Simulations at White Sands Missile Range

Compiled and edited by Jenn Jett, Museum Specialist

Editor’s Note: This article and its contents were compiled from multiple Test Execution Reports, Results Symposium Proceedings, and other documents published as a part of the Defense Nuclear Agency’s Misty Castle Series of High-Explosive Events. The editor would like to thank the thousands of people who contributed to Misty Castle over 12 years of testing at White Sands Missile Range. She would also like to thank the Department of Defense’s Defense Technical Information Center for archiving the many documents used to create this article and the White Sands Missile Range Visual Information Department for preserving footage of the tests. Unless otherwise noted, photographs and images used in this article are from the White Sands Missile Range Museum’s Archival Research Center.

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