What the records say
- When
- 27 Aug 1958
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 2
- Where
- S. Atlantic
- Coordinates
- 38.50° S, 11.50° W
- Yield kt
- 1–2
- Type
- rocket
- Purpose
- British test, effects of nuclear weapons
- Reported by
- DOE
Operation Argus
Series of 1950s US nuclear tests
Operation Argus was a series of United States low-yield, high-altitude nuclear weapons tests and missile tests secretly conducted from 27 August to 9 September 1958 over the South Atlantic Ocean. The tests were performed by the Defense Nuclear Agency.
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- Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Operation Argus: The United States begins nuclear tests over the South Atlantic”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en el Atlántico Sur, a 2700 km al oeste de Ciudad del Cabo (Sudáfrica) y a 160 km al sureste de la isla Tristán da Cunha, el Gobierno de Estados Unidos ―a las…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “アメリカ合衆国軍、アーガス作戦開始、南大西洋で核実験実施。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page