Castle Romeo
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Castle Romeo
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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. It was detonated on March 26, 1954, at Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands, on a barge moored in the middle of the crater from the Castle Bravo test. It was the first such barge-based test, a necessity that had come about because the powerful thermonuclear devices obliterated the small islan
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Codename for one of the first thermonuclear bomb tests
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Romeo
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2023-11-17T17:05:59Z
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