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Video of the test—12 second intro. Operation Wigwam [1] involved a single test of the Mark 90 "Betty" nuclear bomb.It was conducted between Operation Teapot and Project 56 on May 14, 1955, about 500 miles (800 km) southwest of San Diego, California. 6,800 personnel aboard 30 ships were involved in Wigwam.
Test with "energy budget". Competition between UCRL and LASL over budget allocation was high. Project 57: 1957 1: 1: 1: 0 0: The first safety test, asking whether an improperly ignited bomb (as in a plane crash) would cause a nuclear blast. Plumbbob: 1957 29: 29: 25: 0 to 74 345: Included the largest atmospheric test in CONUS. Project 58+58A ...
Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) China Lake [2] is a large military installation in California that supports the research, testing and evaluation programs of the United States Navy. It is part of Navy Region Southwest [3] under Commander, Navy Installations Command, and was originally known as Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS). [4]
There have also been protests by anti-nuclear groups at the Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Plant, [108] the Idaho National Laboratory, [109] Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository proposal, [110] the Hanford Site, the Nevada Test Site, [111] Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, [112] and transportation of nuclear waste from the Los Alamos National ...
Nuclear weapons testing did not produce scenarios like nuclear winter as a result of a scenario of a concentrated number of nuclear explosions in a nuclear holocaust, but the thousands of tests, hundreds being atmospheric, did nevertheless produce a global fallout that peaked in 1963 (the bomb pulse), reaching levels of about 0.15 mSv per year ...
This category is for nuclear test series designations relating to U.S. nuclear weapons testing, ... California B-17 crash;
The United States Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory (NRDL) was an early military lab created to study the effects of radiation and nuclear weapons. The facility was based at the Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, California.
The July 19, 1957 test Plumbbob/John fired a small yield nuclear weapon on an AIR-2 Genie air-to-air rocket from a jet fighter. On August 1, 1958, Redstone rocket launched nuclear test Teak that detonated at an altitude of 77.8 km (48.3 mi). On August 12, 1958, Redstone #CC51 launched nuclear test Orange to a