Castle Union and Yankee craters

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Two thermonuclear bomb tests conducted by the US as part of project Castle. Union, detonated on April 25, 1954 (GMT), was a solid fuel lithium-6 device located on a barge (13 feet above surface). It had a yield of 6.9 megatons. Yankee, detonated on May 4, 1954, was also placed on a barge. It had a yield of 13.5 megatons, the second highest of any US test.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Yankee

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Coordinates: 11°41'2"N 165°24'36"E

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