XX-30 JOHN an air-to-air missile shot fired on July 19, 1957 as part of the Plumbbob series.

XX-43 DAKOTA, part of Operation Redwing, was fired from a barge at Enewetak Atoll on June 25, 1956.

Operation Teapot, Apple-2 tower shot, May 5, 1955, Nevada Test Site.

SEMINOLE, a weapons related surface shot, was part of Operation Redwing and was fired June 6, 1956 at Enewetak Atoll.

SEMINOLE, a weapons related surface shot, was part of Operation Redwing and was fired June 6, 1956 at Enewetak Atoll.

IVY MIKE was fired on Enewetak on October 31, 1952. It was experimental thermonuclear device.

Operation Ivy, King shot, November 15, 1952, Enewetak Atoll.

ANNIE, Operation Upshot-Knothole tower shot 3/17/53

SMOKY Operation Plumbbob, weapons related tower shot 8/31/57 at the Nevada Test Site.

NANCY - Operation Upshot-Knothole,weapons related tower shot 3/24/53 at the Nevada Test Site.

SMOKY, 8/31/57, part of Operation Plumbbob

BRAVO - Operation Castle was an experimental thermonuclear device, 15 megaton weapons related surface shot. Detonated 2/28/54 on Bikini Atoll.

Operation HARDTACK2, Blanca Shot, The UCRL test of an alternate W-47 primary in a thermonuclear system mockup, the predicted yield was 20 kt, actual yield was 22kt. was fired at NTS, Area 12e

LRL test conducted as an attempt to develop non-military uses for nuclear explosives. The purpose of Sedan was to investigate the potential of "clean" thermonuclear devices for producing large craters cheaply (for canal or harbor construction for example) Yield was 104kt, with a Rem yield equal to a 3kt air burst

he HURON KING underground nuclear test was a DOD sponsored event on 24 June 1980. The test involved a device with a yield of less than 20 kilotons, and tested the effects of system generated electromagnetic pulse [SGEMP] on a full-scale operating DSCS-3 military communications satellite. The spacecraft was contained in a large above-ground tank.

1/2ms after detonation. the spikes are called "rope tricks" baker shot

1ms after detonation. able shot.

The test device, designated "NF", was a Mk 4 bomb assembly of a composite uranium-plutonium core. The expected yield was 18-25 kt. 1 November 1951 (camera 1)

The test device, designated "NF", was a Mk 4 bomb assembly of a composite uranium-plutonium core. The expected yield was 18-25 kt. 1 November 1951 (Camera2)

Desert Rock I - the first U.S. nuclear field exercise on land was conducted in association with the Dog shot. In the weeks before the shot the assembled troops (from the 188th Airborne, 127th Engineer Battalion, and the 546th Field Artillery Battalion. 1 November 1951 (Camera 1)

Desert Rock I - the first U.S. nuclear field exercise on land was conducted in association with the Dog shot. In the weeks before the shot the assembled troops (from the 188th Airborne, 127th Engineer Battalion, and the 546th Field Artillery Battalion. 1 November 1951 (Camera 2)

This was a test of the TX-7E , a Mk-7 bomb prototype. With a weight of only 1800 lb and a diameter of 30 inches this bomb represented a drastic size reduction over its Fat Man-size (10,000 lb, 60 inch diameter) predecessors. The design used an 800 lb. assembly of high explosive (primarily Octol 75/25), with a composite uranium-plutonium core. The predicted yield was 22-35 kt.

Part of Operation HARDTQACK 1, the yeild was 8.9Mt, shot was at the Eniwetok Atoll, on the 28th of Jun, 1958

KIWI was an experimental nuclear-powered rocket engine. In this case "TNT" stands for "Transient Nuclear Test." This safety experiment was a deliberate burn-up of the reactor by a run-away chain reaction. The release of energy caused portions of the reactor to vaporize and the reactor to destroy itself.