Redwing Tewa crater

Marshall Islands / Mili / Arbar /
 nuclear testing area, bomb/explosion crater
Crater from the 5 megaton Redwing Tewa thermonuclear test on 20 July 1956. It was shot on a barge anchored close enough to the reef to leave a partial crater.

The fission yield was 87%, the highest known fission yield in any U.S. thermonuclear test. A uranium tamper was used around the tertiary stage instead of the lead tamper used in Zuni. The predicted yield was 6-8 Mt.

This design was later developed into the Mk-41 bomb, the highest yield (25 Mt) weapon ever deployed by the U.S.

www.radiochemistry.org/history/nuke_tests/redwing/
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Coordinates:   11°40'50"N   165°20'27"E

Comments

  • Most of the yield of all atomic bombs is from fission, that doesn't make them dirty.
  • It does, because the fission products are the main reason nobody wants nuclear fallout going down on him. Fusion products are harmless. Only "salted bombs" are even more dirty. Enhanced (neutron) radiation bombs on the other side avoid the third fission stage of "normal" thermonuclear weapons and produce much less fallout.
  • you say potato and I say pa'tato...it's dirty but it's a clean dirty...
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