What the records say
- When
- 26 Oct 1953
- Kind
- Nuclear test
- Yield (kt)
- 8
- Where
- Emu Austr
- Coordinates
- 28.70° S, 132.35° E
- Yield kt
- 8
- Type
- tower
- Purpose
- weapons development programme
- Reported by
- DOE
Operation Totem
1953 atomic tests in South Australia
Operation Totem was a pair of British atmospheric nuclear tests which took place at Emu Field in South Australia in October 1953. They followed the Operation Hurricane test of the first British atomic bomb, which had taken place at the Montebello Islands a year previously. The main purpose of the trial was to determine the acceptable limit on the amount of plutonium-240 which could be present in a bomb.
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The source
- Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated