What the records say
- When
- 26 Mar 1954
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 11,000
- Where
- Bikini
- Coordinates
- 11.35° N, 165.20° E
- Yield kt
- 11000
- Type
- barge
- Purpose
- weapons development programme
- Reported by
- DOE
Castle Romeo
Codename for one of the first thermonuclear bomb tests
Castle Romeo was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of U.S. nuclear tests. It was the first test of the TX-17 thermonuclear weapon, the first deployed thermonuclear bomb.
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- Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Castle Romeo nuclear test explosion is executed at Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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