Large explosive weight experiments and experiments requiring large recovery pads are conducted at the West Valley Pad. This area is approved for net explosive weight testing up to 2,275 kg (5,000 lbs). It features a 300 m x 600 m (1,000 ft x 2,000 ft.) flat, oval pad that can be graded and compacted to accommodate instrumentation. The West Valley Pad is useful for recovery of warhead fragments or debris.
the children would draw the lightning realistically or in the form of the serpent. Of the fourteen drawings, all very lively but also under the influence of the American school, twelve were drawn realistically. But two of them depicted indeed the indestructible symbol of the arrowtongued serpent, as it is found in the kiva (Figure 29). We, however, do not want our imagination to fall under the spell of the serpent image, which leads to the primitive beings of the underworld. We want to ascend to the roof of the worldhouse, our heads perched upwards in recollection o