Reflections of a Nuclear Weaponeer
Colorado Springs, CO: Shelton Enterprise, Inc., 1988. First Edition [stated]. Second Printing [stated]. Hardcover. This book has become extremely rare. Format is approximately 9 inches by 11 inches. Various paginations (approximately 2.5 inches thick). Indexes. References. Appendices. Signed by the author on the title page. Illustrations/Figures. Footnotes. Frank H. Shelton graduated from Caltech with a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics. As a nuclear physicist, he was employed at the Sandia Corporation in New Mexico and was involved in nuclear weapons tests in Nevada and the Pacific. Frank was the Deputy Technical Director for the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project at the Pentagon. He was a Defense Department atomic expert and was responsible for developing military requirements for atomic weapons and for conducting atomic tests. In Colorado Springs, he was Vice President and Chief Scientist for Kaman Sciences. He was also a consultant for ITT. In 1997, he was awarded the Life Time Achievement Award from the Defense Special Weapons Agency. He was a WWII Veteran. He authored numerous books pertaining to nuclear weapons. The chapters in this memoir are: Manhattan Project, Operation Crossroads, Operation Sandstone, Operation Greenhouse, Operation Ivy, Operation Castle, Operation Redwing, Operation Plumbbob, Operation Hardtack, Testing Moratorium, A Return To Testing, and The Limited Test Ban Treaty. More