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Redwing-Cherokee, 3.8-megatons. Redwing-Huron, 250-kilotons. References External links. The short film Nuclear Test Film – Operation Redwing (1956) ...
TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion.The ton of TNT is a unit of energy defined by convention to be 4.184 gigajoules (1 gigacalorie), [1] which is the approximate energy released in the detonation of a metric ton (1,000 kilograms) of TNT.
Log–log plot comparing the yield (in kilotonnes) and mass (in kilograms) of various nuclear weapons developed by the United States.. The explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy released such as blast, thermal, and nuclear radiation, when that particular nuclear weapon is detonated, usually expressed as a TNT equivalent (the standardized equivalent mass of trinitrotoluene ...
The Mark 39 design was a thermonuclear bomb and had a yield of 3.8 megatons. [1] It weighed 6,500–6,750 pounds (2,950–3,060 kilograms), [2] and was about 11 feet, 8 inches long (3.556 meters) [2] with a diameter of 35 inches (89 cm). [2] The design is an improved Mark 15 nuclear bomb design (the TX-15-X3 design and Mark 39 Mod 0 were the ...
3.8 megatons: 76.8 United States: Hardtack Orange: Johnston Island 1958-08-12 3.8 megatons: 43 United States: Argus I: South Atlantic: 1958-08-27 1-2 kilotons: 200 United States: Argus II: South Atlantic: 1958-08-30 1-2 kilotons: 256 United States: Argus III: South Atlantic: 1958-09-06 1-2 kilotons: 539 United States: Starfish Prime Johnston Island
Gun-type (8–30 kilotons). Mark 12 – Light-weight bomb to be carried by fighter aircraft (12–14 kilotons). Mark 13 – Improved version of Mk-6 (cancelled August 1954). TX/Mark 14 – First deployable solid-fuel thermonuclear bomb (Castle Union device). Only five produced. (5 Megatons) Mark 15 – First "lightweight" thermonuclear weapon ...
The crew's final view of the aircraft was in an intact state with its payload of two Mark 39 thermonuclear bombs still on board, each with yields of 3.8 megatons. [b] Sometime between the crew ejecting and the aircraft crashing, the two bombs separated from the aircraft. [7] The pilotless aircraft broke up in the air shortly after the crew ejected.
An 18 kilotons of TNT (75 TJ) land-surface type shot was detonated on a platform at the northern tip of Runit, Enewetak in the second of the 35 tests for Operation Hardtack I. [4]: 2 The initial cloud from the explosion reached as high as 19,000 feet (5.79 km) within the first ten minutes, and settled at around 15,000 feet (4.57 km) by 20 ...