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UK-53-92 HARRY part of Operation
Upshot/Knothole, was a 32 kiloton weapons related device fired from
a tower May 19, 1953 at the Nevada Test Site. |
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XX-01 The Stokes Test, conducted
at the Nevada Test Site on August 7, 1957 was a 19 kiloton device
exploded from a balloon. |
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XX-02 DOPPLER, the test was
conducted on August 23, 1957 at the Nevada Test Site. It was a
balloon shot at 1500 ft. with a yield of 11 kt. |
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XX-03 HOOD, conducted at the
Nevada Test Site on July 5, 1957 was a 74 kiloton device exploded
from a balloon. |
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XX-08 Operation Ranger early 1951
(5 tests in this Series) |
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XX-09 GEORGE, of the Greenhouse
series, was a weapons related test conducted from a tower on
Enewetak on May 8, 1951. |
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XX-10 PRISCILLA was a 37 kiloton
balloon shot fired June 24, 1957 at the Nevada Test
Site. |
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XX-11 IVY MIKE, was fired on
Enewetak on October 31, 1952. It was an experimental thermonuclear
device. |
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XX-12 GRABLE was fired on May 25,
1953 at the Nevada Test Site. A 280mm artillery gun fired the 15
kiloton nuclear shell. This was the only time a nuclear artillery
shell was ever fired. |
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XX-14 FIZEAU was a 11 kiloton
tower shot fired September 14, 1957 at the Nevada Test
Site. |
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XX-15 DIABLO was fired on July
15, 1957 at the Nevada Test Site from a 500 foot tower. It had a
yield of 17 kilotons. |
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XX-16 CHARLESTON, part of
Operation Plumbbob, was fired from a balloon on September 28,
1957. |
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XX-17 DeBACA was a balloon burst
fired October 26, 1958. Since July 1962, all NTS weapons tests have
been underground. |
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XX-18 TRINITY The First Nuclear
Test ever conducted. A 19 kiloton tower shot was exploded July 16,
1945 in New Mexico. |
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XX-27 CHARLIE a 14 kiloton device
was dropped from a B-50 bomber on October 30, 1951 at Yucca Flat.
The test, part of the Buster-Jangle series, was the eighth
detonation at the Nevada Proving Grounds. |
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XX-28 GEORGE part of Operation
Greenhouse was fired from a tower May 8, 1951 at
Enewetak. |
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XX-29 EASY part of Operation
Buster was a 31 kiloton weapons related device fired November 5,
1951 at the Nevada Test Site. |
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XX-30 JOHN an air-to-air missile
shot fired on July 19, 1957 as part of the Plumbbob
series. |
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XX-31 TRINITY First Atomic Test
at Alamogordo, NM July 16, 1945. |
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XX-33 ROMEO a 11 megaton shot
part of Operation Castle. It was fired from a barge near Bikini
Atoll on March 26, 1954. |
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XX-34 BADGER, part of Operation
Upshot-Knothole, was a 23 kiloton tower shot fired April 18, 1953 at
the Nevada Test Site. |
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XX-35 APACHE shot was fired from
a barge on July, 8, 1956 on Enewetak. |
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XX-36 APACHE was fired from a
barge on July 8, 1956, on Enewetak. |
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XX-38 The Seminole shot was fired
June 6, 1956 on Enewetak Atoll. Seminole had a yield of 13.7
kilotons. |
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XX-39 CLIMAX, part of Operation
Upshot/Knothole, was a 61 kiloton device fired June 4, 1953 at the
Nevada Test Site. |
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XX-40 BOLTZMAN was a 12 kiloton
shot fired from a tower in the Nevada Test Site May 28, 1957. Part
of Operation Plumbbob. |
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XX-43 DAKOTA, part of Operation
Redwing, was fired from a barge at Enewetak Atoll on June 25,
1956. |
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XX-45 Operation Teapot, Apple-2 tower shot, May 5, 1955, Nevada Test Site. |
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XX-46 SEMINOLE, a weapons related
surface shot, was part of Operation Redwing and was fired June 6,
1956 at Enewetak Atoll. |
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XX-48 SEMINOLE, a weapons related
surface shot, was part of Operation Redwing and was fired June 6,
1956 at Enewetak Atoll. |
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XX-58 IVY MIKE was fired on
Enewetak on October 31, 1952. It was experimental thermonuclear
device. |
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XX-59 Operation Ivy, King shot, November 15, 1952, Enewetak Atoll. |
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XX-60 ANNIE, Operation
Upshot-Knothole tower shot 3/17/53 |
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XX-64 SMOKY Operation Plumbbob, weapons related tower shot 8/31/57 at the Nevada Test
Site. |
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XX-65 NANCY - Operation
Upshot-Knothole,weapons related tower shot 3/24/53 at the Nevada
Test Site. |
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XX-70 SMOKY, 8/31/57, part of
Operation Plumbbob |
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XX-92 BRAVO - Operation Castle was an experimental thermonuclear device, 15 megaton weapons
related surface shot. Detonated 2/28/54 on Bikini
Atoll. |
