What the records say
- When
- 28 Apr 1958
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 3,000
- Where
- Christmas Is
- Coordinates
- 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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The source
- Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated