Operation Niblick
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The United States's Niblick nuclear test series[1] was a group of 41 nuclear tests conducted in 1963–1964. These tests[note 1] followed the Operation Roller Coaster series and preceded the Operation Whetstone series.
List of the nuclear tests
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| Name [note 2] | Date time (UT) | Local time zone[note 3][2] | Location[note 4] | Elevation + height [note 5] | Delivery [note 6] Purpose [note 7] |
Device[note 8] | Yield[note 9] | Fallout[note 10] | References | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PekanScript error: No such module "anchor". | Template:Dts 23:45:00.13 | PST (–8 hrs) |
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| BilbyScript error: No such module "anchor". | Template:Dts 17:00:00.13 | PST (–8 hrs) |
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| CarpScript error: No such module "anchor". | Template:Dts 14:20:00.13 | PST (–8 hrs) |
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| NarraguagusScript error: No such module "anchor". | Template:Dts 17:30:00.15 | PST (–8 hrs) |
NTS Area U2f Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort".Script error: No such module "convert". – Script error: No such module "convert". | underground shaft, weapons development |
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| GrunionScript error: No such module "anchor". | Template:Dts 14:00:00.11 | PST (–8 hrs) |
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| TornilloScript error: No such module "anchor". | Template:Dts 21:00:00.155 | PST (–8 hrs) |
NTS Area U9aq Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort".Script error: No such module "convert". – Script error: No such module "convert". | underground shaft, peaceful research |
Script error: No such module "sort". | Venting detected, Script error: No such module "convert". | [1][3][4][5][6][7] | Plowshare experiment to provide a clean device for excavations. | |
| ClearwaterScript error: No such module "anchor". | Template:Dts 17:00:00.14 | PST (–8 hrs) |
NTS Area U12q Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort".Script error: No such module "convert". – Script error: No such module "convert". | underground shaft, weapons development |
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| MulletScript error: No such module "anchor". | Template:Dts 15:00:00.15 | PST (–8 hrs) |
NTS Area U2ag Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort".Script error: No such module "convert". – Script error: No such module "convert". | underground shaft, safety experiment |
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| ShoalScript error: No such module "anchor". | Template:Dts 17:00:00.1 | PST (–8 hrs) |
Fallon, Nevada Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort".Script error: No such module "convert". – Script error: No such module "convert". | underground shaft, joint verification |
Script error: No such module "sort". | Venting detected, Script error: No such module "convert". | [1][4][7] | Project Vela Uniform, investigation of detection of underground testing. | |
| AnchovyScript error: No such module "anchor". | Template:Dts 16:00:00.12 | PST (–8 hrs) |
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| MustangScript error: No such module "anchor". | Template:Dts 15:00:00.15 | PST (–8 hrs) |
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| SolendonScript error: No such module "anchor". | Template:Dts 15:38:00.12 | PST (–8 hrs) |
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| BunkerScript error: No such module "anchor". | Template:Dts 15:30:00.15 | PST (–8 hrs) |
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| BonefishScript error: No such module "anchor". | Template:Dts 15:37:19.12 | PST (–8 hrs) |
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| MackerelScript error: No such module "anchor". | Template:Dts 15:37:37.124 | PST (–8 hrs) |
NTS Area U4b Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort".Script error: No such module "convert". – Script error: No such module "convert". | underground shaft, weapons development |
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| KlickitatScript error: No such module "anchor". | Template:Dts 15:30:00.15 | PST (–8 hrs) |
NTS Area U10e Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Script error: No such module "sort".Script error: No such module "convert". – Script error: No such module "convert". | underground shaft, peaceful research |
Script error: No such module "sort". | Venting detected, less than Script error: No such module "convert". | [1][3][4][5][6][7] | A Plowshare device-development experiment to produce an improved nuclear explosive for excavation applications. | |
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Script error: No such module "sort". | Venting detected off site, Script error: No such module "convert". | [1][3][4][5][6][7] | Vented massively for 69 seconds after detonation until quieted by chimney collapse. Possible fault crack. | |
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Script error: No such module "sort". | Venting detected on site, Script error: No such module "convert". | [1][3][5][6][7][8] | A Plowshare experiment to develop emplacement techniques. |
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- ↑ A bomb test may be a salvo test, defined as two or more explosions "where a period of time between successive individual explosions does not exceed 5 seconds and where the burial points of all explosive devices can be connected by segments of straight lines, each of them connecting two burial points and does not exceed 40 kilometers in length". Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ The US, France and Great Britain have code-named their test events, while the USSR and China did not, and therefore have only test numbers (with some exceptions – Soviet peaceful explosions were named). Word translations into English in parentheses unless the name is a proper noun. A dash followed by a number indicates a member of a salvo event. The US also sometimes named the individual explosions in such a salvo test, which results in "name1 – 1(with name2)". If test is canceled or aborted, then the row data like date and location discloses the intended plans, where known.
- ↑ To convert the UT time into standard local, add the number of hours in parentheses to the UT time; for local daylight saving time, add one additional hour. If the result is earlier than 00:00, add 24 hours and subtract 1 from the day; if it is 24:00 or later, subtract 24 hours and add 1 to the day.
- ↑ Rough place name and a latitude/longitude reference; for rocket-carried tests, the launch location is specified before the detonation location, if known. Some locations are extremely accurate; others (like airdrops and space blasts) may be quite inaccurate. "~" indicates a likely pro-forma rough location, shared with other tests in that same area.
- ↑ Elevation is the ground level at the point directly below the explosion relative to sea level; height is the additional distance added or subtracted by tower, balloon, shaft, tunnel, air drop or other contrivance. For rocket bursts the ground level is "N/A". In some cases it is not clear if the height is absolute or relative to ground, for example, Plumbbob/John. No number or units indicates the value is unknown, while "0" means zero. Sorting on this column is by elevation and height added together.
- ↑ Atmospheric, airdrop, balloon, gun, cruise missile, rocket, surface, tower, and barge are all disallowed by the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Sealed shaft and tunnel are underground, and remained useful under the PTBT. Intentional cratering tests are borderline; they occurred under the treaty, were sometimes protested, and generally overlooked if the test was declared to be a peaceful use.
- ↑ Include weapons development, weapon effects, safety test, transport safety test, war, science, joint verification and industrial/peaceful, which may be further broken down.
- ↑ Designations for test items where known, "?" indicates some uncertainty about the preceding value, nicknames for particular devices in quotes. This category of information is often not officially disclosed.
- ↑ Estimated energy yield in tons, kilotons, and megatons. A ton of TNT equivalent is defined as 4.184 gigajoules (1 gigacalorie).
- ↑ Radioactive emission to the atmosphere aside from prompt neutrons, where known. The measured species is only iodine-131 if mentioned, otherwise it is all species. No entry means unknown, probably none if underground and "all" if not; otherwise notation for whether measured on the site only or off the site, where known, and the measured amount of radioactivity released.
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References
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