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The Koon shot of Operation Castle was a test of a thermonuclear device designed at the University of California Radiation Laboratory (UCRL), now Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The "dry" two-stage device was known as "Morgenstern" and had a highly innovative secondary stage. It was tested on April 7, 1954.
Killiney Castle, also known as Mount Malpas, [3] Rocksborough, [3] or Loftus Hill, and now known as Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, is an 18th-century manor house near Killiney in County Dublin, Ireland. Subsequently converted into a hotel , [ 4 ] it has operated as one since 1971.
Such fizzles can have very high yields, as in the case of Castle Koon, where the secondary stage of a device with a 1 megaton design fizzled, but its primary still generated a yield of 100 kilotons, and even the fizzled secondary still contributed another 10 kilotons, for a total yield of 110 kT.
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The test was part of the Koon shot of Operation Castle. The Mk-22 failed to achieve anything like its intended yield due to premature heating of the secondary from exposure to neutrons. As the other UCRL test planned for the Castle series, the liquid-fueled "Ramrod" device had the same basic design flaw, that test was canceled
In 2011, Every Day with Rachael Ray listed Mohonk as one of "Our Eight Favorite Resorts". [33] Mohonk Mountain House is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. [34] In July 2024, Americas Great Resorts added the hotel to its Top Picks as a landmark property. [35]