Talk:Vela Uniform

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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. He may have worked under an alias, possibly H. C. Urey.

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 - hannahkohl@hotmail.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)