Post by bushog on Mar 4, 2021 10:50:54 GMT -5
I'm honored to be associated with some of the greatest minds and efforts of the 20th century....not many around any more....
We're celebrating the anniversary though.
"In 1954, the United States conducted the six-shot test series Operation Castle, which took place at the Pacific Proving Ground at Bikini and Enewetak Atolls. Workers from Los Alamos Scientific Lab, as the Lab was called then, as well as the University of California Radiation Laboratory (now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), the military, and the Holmes & Narver engineering company traveled to the Marshall Islands to conduct the test series. Many of the shots in Operation Castle were conducted to test early designs for deliverable thermonuclear devices (also called hydrogen bombs, or H-bombs). Unlike fission bombs, which release energy by splitting atoms, hydrogen bombs derive their energy by combining, or fusing, atoms."
"Operation Castle’s first test, Bravo, was experimental and not a deliverable weapon. The Bravo shot took place on Feb. 28, 1954 (March 1 in New Mexico), and yielded 15 megatons — the highest yield of any U.S. nuclear test."
"Operation Castle was a nuclear weapons test series that took place in 1954 in the Marshall Islands. The mission included about 10,000 people, who lived and worked in the Pacific for many months."
"As a joke, a group of scientists placed a work order for a Parry Island Amusement Park sign, which included inside jokes from their long work day and erratic shifts. The sign was hung near the island’s headquarters building for a short time before it was removed."
We're celebrating the anniversary though.
"In 1954, the United States conducted the six-shot test series Operation Castle, which took place at the Pacific Proving Ground at Bikini and Enewetak Atolls. Workers from Los Alamos Scientific Lab, as the Lab was called then, as well as the University of California Radiation Laboratory (now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), the military, and the Holmes & Narver engineering company traveled to the Marshall Islands to conduct the test series. Many of the shots in Operation Castle were conducted to test early designs for deliverable thermonuclear devices (also called hydrogen bombs, or H-bombs). Unlike fission bombs, which release energy by splitting atoms, hydrogen bombs derive their energy by combining, or fusing, atoms."
"Operation Castle’s first test, Bravo, was experimental and not a deliverable weapon. The Bravo shot took place on Feb. 28, 1954 (March 1 in New Mexico), and yielded 15 megatons — the highest yield of any U.S. nuclear test."
"Operation Castle was a nuclear weapons test series that took place in 1954 in the Marshall Islands. The mission included about 10,000 people, who lived and worked in the Pacific for many months."
"As a joke, a group of scientists placed a work order for a Parry Island Amusement Park sign, which included inside jokes from their long work day and erratic shifts. The sign was hung near the island’s headquarters building for a short time before it was removed."
