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First nuclear weapons test, conducted as part of the Manhattan Project. Tested the Mark 3 Fat Man design. Crossroads: 1946 2: 2: 2: 21 42: First postwar test series. Sandstone: 1948 3: 3: 3: 18 to 49 104: The first use of "levitated" cores made of oralloy. Tested components for Mark 4 design. Ranger: 1951 5: 5: 5: 1 to 22 40: First tests at the ...
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
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 ...
Operation Dominic was a series of 31 nuclear test explosions ("shots") with a 38.1 Mt (159 PJ) total yield conducted in 1962 by the United States in the Pacific. [1] This test series was scheduled quickly, in order to respond in kind to the Soviet resumption of testing after the tacit 1958–1961 test moratorium.
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 nuclear-armed North last week test-fired what it ... That package includes the potential sale of airborne early warning and control systems to South Korea, with the approval of four E-7 ...
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 ...
Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN show, at a time when ...