Annie (United States)

متى

17 مارس 1953

النوع

تجربة نووية

القدرة (kt)

16

الموقع

Nts

إحداثيات

37.00° N, 116.00° W

Yield kt

16

Type

tower

Purpose

weapons development programme

Reported by

DOE

U.S. nuclear weapons test

Upshot–Knothole Annie was one of eleven nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States as part of Operation Upshot–Knothole. It took place at the Nevada Test Site on 17 March 1953, and was nationally televised. The device used in the blast was a 16 kt Mark 5 Nuclear Bomb - a low yield fission weapon, detonated 90 meters / 300 feet above the ground.

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