Operation Redwing

When

4 May 1956

Kind

Nuclear test

Coordinates

11.55° N, 162.35° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Operación Redwing.

en el atolón Eniwetak (en las islas Marshall, en medio del océano Pacífico), Estados Unidos detona su bomba atómica Lacrosse (nombre de una etnia de nativos estadounidenses), de 40 kilotones, la primera de las 17 de la operación Redwing. Es la bomba n.º 71 de las 1127 que Estados Unidos detonó entre 1945 y 1992.

Series of 1950s US nuclear tests

Operation Redwing was a United States series of 17 nuclear test detonations from May to July 1956. They were conducted at Bikini and Enewetak atolls by Joint Task Force 7 (JTF7). The entire operation followed Project 56 and preceded Project 57. The primary intention was to test new, second-generation thermonuclear weapons.

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