What the records say
- When
- 18 Jul 1964
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 50.27° N, 111.17° W
- Description
- 1964 500-ton TNT explosives test to simulate nuclear weapons detonation
Operation Snowball (test)
Canadian explosives test in 1964
Operation Snowball was a 1964 conventional explosive test made to obtain information on nuclear weapon detonations run by the Defence Research Board of Canada with participation from the United Kingdom and United States. A detonation of 500 short tons (450 t) of TNT was used to study the resulting phenomena.
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