This book is presented primarily to record the papers of the Conference on the Exploding Wire Phenomenon conducted by the Air Force Cambridge Research Center in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 2 and 3, 1959.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Second Conference on the Exploding Wire Phenomenon.

This book is presented primarily to record the papers of the Conference on the Exploding Wire Phenomenon conducted by the Air Force Cambridge Research Center in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 2 and 3, 1959.

"To investigate the application of exploding wires as fuses for the proposed Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory 2-megajoule Project Sherwood capacitor bank, a 49.5-kilojoule capacitor discharge system was established at Sandia Corporation.

The experimental apparatus and techniques for studying exploding wires by means of a cable discharge system are described.