What the records say
- When
- 24 Aug 1968
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 1,000
- Where
- Fangataufa
- Coordinates
- 22.21° S, 138.81° W
- Yield kt
- 1000
- Type
- balloon
- Purpose
- weapons development programme
- Body wave magnitude
- 5
- Reported by
- UGS
Canopus (nuclear test)
France's largest nuclear test
Canopus was the first French two-stage thermonuclear test. It was conducted by the Pacific Carrier Battle Group on 24 August 1968, at the Pacific Experiments Centre near Fangataufa atoll, French Polynesia. The test made France the fifth country to test a thermonuclear device after the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and China. It was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by France.
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- Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Canopus (nuclear test): France explodes its first hydrogen bomb in a test at Fangataufa atoll in French Polynesia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “opération Canopus, premier essai d'une bombe à hydrogène (H) au-dessus de l'atoll de Fangataufa”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page