Hurricane (United Kingdom)

Ne zaman

3 Eki 1952

Tür

Nükleer deneme

Güç (kt)

25

Konum

Monteb Austr

Koordinatlar

20.40° S, 115.57° E

Yield kt

25

Type

ship

Purpose

British test, effects of nuclear weapons

Reported by

DOE

1952 British atomic bomb test in Western Australia

Operation Hurricane was the first test of a British atomic device. A plutonium implosion device was detonated on 3 October 1952 in Main Bay, Trimouille Island, in the Montebello Islands in Western Australia. With the success of Operation Hurricane, the United Kingdom became the third nuclear power, after the United States and the Soviet Union.

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• Nuclear explosions 1945–1998SIPRI / FOA, via TidyTuesdayNo licence stated
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• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · “a las 16:59, dentro de un barco anclado en la isla Trimouille (al norte de Australia), Reino Unido detona su primera bomba atómica, Hurricane” adını veriyorCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Kaynak sayfası
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · “イギリスが初の原爆実験を実施し、アメリカ・ソ連に続く第3の核保有国となる。” adını veriyorCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Kaynak sayfası