What the records say
- When
- 3 Oct 1952
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 25
- Where
- Monteb Austr
- Coordinates
- 20.40° S, 115.57° E
- Yield kt
- 25
- Type
- ship
- Purpose
- British test, effects of nuclear weapons
- Reported by
- DOE
Operation Hurricane
1952 British atomic bomb test in Western Australia
Operation Hurricane was the first test of a British atomic device. A plutonium implosion device was detonated on 3 October 1952 in Main Bay, Trimouille Island, in the Montebello Islands in Western Australia. With the success of Operation Hurricane, the United Kingdom became the third nuclear power, after the United States and the Soviet Union.
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- Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Operation Hurricane: The UK detonates its first atomic bomb in the Monte Bello Islands, Australia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “a las 16:59, dentro de un barco anclado en la isla Trimouille (al norte de Australia), Reino Unido detona su primera bomba atómica, Hurricane”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “イギリスが初の原爆実験を実施し、アメリカ・ソ連に続く第3の核保有国となる。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page