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My grandfather, Harold Carter Kohl, worked for Holmes and Narver and the AEC in the early 60's as an Atomic Engineer. I am looking for any information relating to his time with either organization and especially as related to Vela Uniform, his time in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Alaska, Nevada, or the Marshall Islands. I believe his specialty was designing detonation test sites.

When I was a little girl, he gave me a radioactive piece of salt from one of the test sites, which I used to lick whenever I went to his house. My father used to have picnics with his mother, brother, and cousins about 10 miles from the blast sites so they could watch the bombs go off (one of my Grandpa Hi's big "fun" ideas!)... pretty interesting family history, as related to Project Vela.

I'd love to talk to anyone who has information or who is currently searching for information related to the project. Hannah Kohl - kohl.hannah@gmail.com

You could go vist the SHOAL site, perhaps others. SHOAL is about 30 miles west of Fallon, Nevada, and the area is unrestricted. It's not terribly exciting though - there's no crater just a concrete pad and a bunch of groundwater monitoring wells. Toiyabe 17:56, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Watch out on this aliases there. Harold Clayton Urey was a well-known American physicist associated with the Manhattan project and other work. SkoreKeep (talk) 16:26, 25 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Project Coyboy

Am looking for information about Project Coyboy. It was connected to this program. I need to verify that it was just regular explosives in a salt dome in Winnfield La and not radioactive. Sattmaster (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:30, 18 August 2011 (UTC).[reply]

No nuclear detonation ever took place in Louisiana. See U.S. Department of Energy / Nevada Operations Office, United States Nuclear Tests - July 1945 through September 1992, December 2000, DOE/NV-209 Rev 15. Bomazi (talk) 22:04, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Look for project cowboy/plowboy. It was a couple(?) of shaft conventional explosives tests carried out by Plowshare engineers for the DoD's Vela Uniform Dribble (the seismic detection of nuclear testing) program. I'm looking into this to add it to the article. A lot of Plowshare was done with conventional explosives; the part with the nukes was just the most publicized part, and of course the object of it all. SkoreKeep (talk) 16:04, 25 December 2013 (UTC

Ah, there we go. Fired 12/1/1959, near Winnfield LA, at the Carey Salt Mine. Used to determine the different seismic waves created by coupled and uncoupled events. Definitely not radioactive.