risenero.blogg.se - Tinderbox utah

#Tinderbox utah verification
#Tinderbox utah series

#Tinderbox utah verification

^ Include weapons development, weapon effects, safety test, transport safety test, war, science, joint verification and industrial/peaceful, which may be further broken down.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. Sealed shaft and tunnel are underground, and remained useful under the PTBT. ^ Atmospheric, airdrop, balloon, gun, cruise missile, rocket, surface, tower, and barge are all disallowed by the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Sorting on this column is by elevation and height added together. No number or units indicates the value is unknown, while "0" means zero. In some cases it is not clear if the height is absolute or relative to ground, for example, Plumbbob/John. For rocket bursts the ground level is "N/A". ^ 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."~" indicates a likely pro-forma rough location, shared with other tests in that same area. Some locations are extremely accurate others (like airdrops and space blasts) may be quite inaccurate. ^ Rough place name and a latitude/longitude reference for rocket-carried tests, the launch location is specified before the detonation location, if known.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. ^ 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 test is canceled or aborted, then the row data like date and location discloses the intended plans, where known. The US also sometimes named the individual explosions in such a salvo test, which results in "name1 – 1(with name2)". A dash followed by a number indicates a member of a salvo event. Word translations into English in parentheses unless the name is a proper noun.

^ 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).

Venting detected off site, 2.2 kCi (81 TBq) It is still on the NE lip of the test's crater. Radiation and EMP effects shot through a mockup DSCS satellite on the surface, which was then towed off the collapsing cap.

#Tinderbox utah series

Diagram of Huron King United States' Tinderbox series tests and detonations