Castle Union
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castle-union-194-1959931
title:
Castle Union
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Castle Union was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of United States nuclear tests. It was the first test of the TX-14 thermonuclear weapon, one of the first deployed U.S. thermonuclear bombs. An "Alarm Clock" device is a "dry" fusion bomb, using lithium deuteride fuel for the fusion stage of a "staged" fusion bomb, unlike the cryogenic liquid deuterium of the first-generation Ivy Mike fusion device. It differed from the Castle Romeo "Runt" device, tested shor
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Hydrogen bomb test
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Union
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2024-03-21T22:44:24Z
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