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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 ...
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.
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
Even before the third test had been carried out, production of the old cores was halted, and all effort concentrated on the new Mark 4 nuclear bomb, which would become the first mass-produced nuclear weapon. More efficient use of fissionable material as a result of Operation Sandstone would increase the U.S. nuclear stockpile from 56 bombs in ...
The Koon shot of Operation Castle was a test of a thermonuclear device designed at the University of California Radiation Laboratory (UCRL), now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The "dry" two-stage device was known as "Morgenstern" and had a highly innovative secondary stage. It was tested on April 7, 1954.
Southeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (Treaty of Bangkok) December 15, 1995: March 28, 1997: yes Bans nuclear weapons from southeast Asia. African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone Treaty (Pelindaba Treaty) January 1, 1996: July 16, 2009: yes Bans nuclear weapons in Africa. Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) September 10, 1996: yes ...
This category is for nuclear test series designations relating to U.S. nuclear weapons testing, and other articles related to specifically U.S. nuclear testing. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
The previous year in 1964, Operation Snowball was a 500-ton HE test on the Experimental Proving Ground in Alberta, Canada that provided technical information related to nuclear weapon detonation. [6] In 1963, DASA called on the Bureau of Ships to conduct a full scale explosives test with conventional chemical explosives and a test site had to ...