Codename for one of the first thermonuclear bomb tests
Castle Romeo
Castle Romeo mushroom cloud
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Country
United States
Test series
Operation Castle
Test site
Bikini Atoll
Date
March 26, 1954 (70 years ago) (1954-03-26)
Test type
Atmospheric
Yield
11 Mt
Test chronology
← Castle Bravo
Castle Koon →
Castle Romeo was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of U.S. nuclear tests. It was the first test of the TX-17 thermonuclear weapon, the first deployed thermonuclear bomb.
It was detonated on March 26, 1954, at Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands, on a barge moored in the middle of the crater from the Castle Bravo test. It was the first such barge-based test, a necessity that had come about because the powerful thermonuclear devices obliterated the small islands following detonation.
CastleRomeo was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of U.S. nuclear tests. It was the first test of the TX-17 thermonuclear...
The CastleRomeo and Koon tests were complete by the time this revision was published. Castle-Union, 6.9-megatons. Castle-Yankee, 13.6-megatons Castle-Romeo...
of the first-generation Ivy Mike fusion device. It differed from the CastleRomeo "Runt" device, tested shortly before, in using highly enriched lithium...
geometry to the RUNT and RUNT II devices later proof-fired in CastleRomeo and Castle Yankee respectively. On paper it was a scaled-down version of these...
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was replaced by the Runt II device (a TX-24/EC-24), developed from the CastleRomeo Runt device (a TX-17/EC-17). Externally identical, the principal difference...
The Koon shot of Operation Castle was a test of a thermonuclear device designed at the University of California Radiation Laboratory (UCRL), now Lawrence...
1953. The TX-17 and 24 were tested as the "Runt" (CastleRomeo shot) device during Operation Castle in 1954. After the successful tests, basic versions...
reportedly very similar to the Runt design tested in CastleRomeo, other than the enrichment level. Castle Yankee had a demonstrated yield of 13.5 megatons...
entirely on multiple shots, known as a "fissile fizzle". The Castle Koon shot of Operation Castle is a good example; a small flaw allowed the neutron flux...
The image on the front album cover is a photograph taken during the CastleRomeo H-bomb test. Critical reception to The Age of Quarrel has been met with...
of East Germany. Soviet troops remain in the country. March 27 – The CastleRomeo nuclear test explosion is executed at Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands...
Klaus Fuchs.[citation needed] On March 1, 1954, the U.S. conducted the Castle Bravo test, which tested another hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll. Scientists...
full cryogenic equipment it weighed about 82 tons. [citation needed] The Castle Bravo shot of 1 March 1954, at Bikini Atoll, was the first test of a deployable...
with code name Ivy Mike in 1952. A 1954 thermonuclear test, code named CastleRomeo; In 1959, Fidel Castro overthrows Fulgencio Batista in the Cuban Revolution...
fallout from the Castle Bravo nuclear test on Bikini Atoll led to a pre-planned aerial survey of atolls adjacent to the subsequent CastleRomeo test, timed...
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(Fiennes) and Viola de Lesseps (Paltrow) while Shakespeare was writing Romeo and Juliet. Several characters are based on historical figures, and many...
sets and decor. In 1996, the castle was a film location for the Academy Award-nominated movie William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet starring Leonardo DiCaprio...
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