Atomtest

Grapple Y (United Kingdom)

28. Apr. 1958 · Christmas Is

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Wann
28. Apr. 1958
Art
Atomtest
Sprengkraft (kt)
3.000
Position
Christmas Is
Koordinaten
2.00° N, 157.00° W
Yield kt
3000
Type
airdrop
Purpose
weapons development programme
Reported by
DOE

Operation Grapple

Series of British nuclear weapons tests

Operation Grapple was a set of four series of British nuclear weapons tests of early atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs carried out in 1957 and 1958 at Malden Island and Kiritimati in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in the Pacific Ocean as part of the British hydrogen bomb programme.

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