What the records say
- When
- 25 May 1953
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 15
- Where
- Nts
- Coordinates
- 37.00° N, 116.00° W
- Yield kt
- 15
- Type
- atmosph
- Purpose
- weapons development programme
- Reported by
- DOE
Upshot–Knothole Grable
1953 nuclear artillery test at the Nevada Test Site, United States
Upshot–Knothole Grable was a nuclear weapons test conducted by the United States as part of Operation Upshot–Knothole. Detonation of the nuclear weapon, a W9 warhead, occurred 19 seconds after its deployment at 8:30am PDT on May 25, 1953, in Area 5 of the Nevada Test Site.
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- Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its only nuclear artillery test: Upshot-Knothole Grable”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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