Castle Yankee
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Castle Yankee
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Castle Yankee was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of American tests of thermonuclear bombs. It was originally intended as a test of a TX-16/EC-16 Jughead bomb, but the design became obsolete after the Castle Bravo test was successful. The test device was replaced with a TX-24/EC-24 Runt II bomb which was detonated on May 5, 1954, at Bikini Atoll.
It released energy equivalent to 13.5 megatons of TNT, the second-largest yield ever in a U.S. fusion weapon tes
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1954 nuclear test of thermonuclear bomb by USA
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Yankee
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2024-04-11T16:12:24Z
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