- Map all
coordinates in "Operation
Plumbbob"
using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary...
- A
plumb bob,
plumb bob level, or plummet, is a weight,
usually with a
pointed tip on the bottom,
suspended from a
string and used as a
vertical direction...
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crews as the "dum-dum". A live
Genie was
detonated only once, in
Operation Plumbbob on 19 July 1957. It was
fired by USAF
Captain Eric
William Hutchison (pilot)...
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travelling as far as 140 mi (225 km) from
ground zero. On 26 July 1957,
Plumbbob Pascal-A was
detonated at the
bottom of a 486 ft (148 m) shaft. According...
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Force Range in 1957,
following Operation Redwing, and
preceding Operation Plumbbob. The test area, also
known as Area 13, was a 10
miles (16 km) by 16 miles...
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shaft during an
underground nuclear test in 1957.
During the
Operation Plumbbob nuclear tests, a 900-kilogram (1,984 lb)
steel plate cap was
blasted off...
- Bibcode:1998S&GS....7....1N. doi:10.1080/08929889808426448. "Operation
Plumbbob".
Nuclear Weapon Archive. July 2003.
Retrieved July 31, 2006. Brownlee...
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tailings dam
failure 1957
Kyshtym disaster 1957
Windscale fire 1957
Operation Plumbbob 1954
Totskoye nuclear exercise 1950
Desert Rock
exercises Bikini Atoll...
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weapon effects tests at the
Nevada Test Site (NTS)
during the
Operation Plumbbob series of
tests in 1957. K-40, K-46, K-77 and K-92 were destro**** in Project...
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higher altitudes than test towers.
Several of the
tests in the
Operation Plumbbob series were
lifted to
altitude using barrage balloons.
Aerostat Tethered...
