Operation Greenhouse, Marshall Islands, 1951

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Name (Latin)
Operation Greenhouse, Marshall Islands, 1951
Other forms of name
Greenhouse, Operation, Marshall Islands, 1951
nne Operation Greenhouse, 1951
Coordinates
162.196 162.196 11.6711 11.6711 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Nuclear weapons Marshall Islands Testing
Nuclear weapons United States Testing
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q769930
Library of congress: sh2004014904
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Operation Greenhouse, Eniwetok Island Atoll, W. Pacific ... Oct. 23, 1952.
  • Nuclear Weapon Archive WWW site, Dec. 20, 2004(Operation Greenhouse; Greenhouse Test Series was conducted at Enewetok Atoll in April and May, 1951; consisted of four relatively high yield tests: Dog, Easy, George and Item; Dog and Easy were proof tests of two new strategic bombs Mk 6 and Mk 5; George and Item were the first true tests of thermonuclear fusion; George was a research experiment that studied deuterium-fusion burning when heated by thermal radiation; Item was the first test of the principle of fusion boosting of fission devices)