What the records say
- When
- 6 Apr 1954
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 110
- Where
- Bikini
- Coordinates
- 11.35° N, 165.20° E
- Yield kt
- 110
- Type
- surface
- Purpose
- weapons development programme
- Reported by
- DOE
Castle Koon
1954 nuclear weapon test
The Koon shot of Operation Castle was a test of a thermonuclear device designed at the University of California Radiation Laboratory (UCRL), now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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