Romeo (United States)

Quand

26 mars 1954

Type

Essai nucléaire

Puissance (kt)

11 000

Position

Bikini

Coordonnées

11.35° N, 165.20° E

Yield kt

11000

Purpose

weapons development programme

Reported by

DOE

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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