Theory of the Fireball

I am greatly indebted to Harold Brode of the Rand Corporation for
giving me a patient introduction to the work on fireball dynamics since
World War 11, for sending me the pertinent Rand publications on the sub-
ject, and for doing a special numerical computation for me. To Burton
Freeman of General Atomic I am grateful for several interesting discus- !
sions of fireball development and opacities of air. I want to thank
Herman Hoerlin for much information on the observational material, and
for selecting for me pertinent Los Alms reports. I am ?specially
grateful to Albert Petschek for critical reading of the manuscript and
for several helpful additions. My thanks are also due to many other
members of Groups J-10 and T-12 at Los Alamos, to J. C, Stuart and K. D.
watt at General Atomic, Bennett Kivel and J. C. Keck at Avco-Everett,
and to F . R. Gilmore at Rand for important infomat ion.
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