See also: List of nuclear weapons tests of the United States
Operation Storax
Storax Sedan
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Country
United States
Test site
NTS Area 12, Rainier Mesa
NTS, Areas 1–4, 6–10, Yucca Flat
Period
1962–1963
Number of tests
47
Test type
cratering, underground shaft, tunnel
Max. yield
115 kilotonnes of TNT (480 TJ)
Test series chronology
← Operation Fishbowl
Operation Roller Coaster →
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Operation Storax[1] was a series of 47 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1962–1963 at the Nevada Test Site. These tests followed the Operation Fishbowl series and preceded the Operation Roller Coaster series.
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and the particles released. The tests followed the OperationStorax series and preceded the Operation Niblick series. The US, France and Great Britain have...
test shot was the "Sedan" shot of OperationStorax on July 6, 1962, a 104-kiloton-of-TNT (440 TJ) shot for Operation Plowshare, which sought to prove that...
Springs AFB served as a support base for projects from Operation Ranger in 1951 to OperationStorax in 1962." "The 4935th Air Base Squadron was activated...
ICBM), so by itself it did not satisfy all concerns. Shot Sedan of OperationStorax on 6 July 1962 (yield of 104 kilotons), was an attempt to show the...
rocket. A dramatically different test shot was the "Sedan" test of OperationStorax on July 6, 1962, a 104 kiloton shot for Project Plowshare which sought...
ICBM), so by itself, it did not satisfy all concerns. Shot Sedan of OperationStorax on 6 July 1962 (yield of 104 kilotons), was an attempt at showing the...
Energy's Nevada Test Site. The Sedan nuclear test carried out as part of OperationStorax displaced 12 million tons of earth, creating the largest man-made crater...
resumed testing. Two American test series followed: Operation Nougat, and then OperationStorax. The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty went into effect...
developed from atmospheric testing during Operation Sandstone in the spring of 1948. During the operation, an aircraft accidentally flew through an atomic...
Nuclearweaponarchive.org. Retrieved on May 1, 2011. Operation Hardtack I. Nuclearweaponarchive.org. Retrieved on May 1, 2011. Operation Redwing. Nuclearweaponarchive.org...
myrrh, as galbanum, and onyx, and sweet storax, and as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle.” The storax of antiquity was styrax. The writer refers...
In 1839, Eduard Simon discovered polystyrene by accident by distilling storax. In 1856, William Henry Perkin discovered the first synthetic dye, Mauveine...
actually carried out by the United Kingdom at the NTS; four aborted tests in Operation Fishbowl; one test, Anvil/Peninsula, that jammed during lowering in its...
was discovered in 1839 by Eduard Simon, an apothecary from Berlin. From storax, the resin of the Oriental sweetgum tree Liquidambar orientalis, he distilled...
woven with gold [al-thiyāb al-kamkhāt al-mudhahhabah], top quality musk, storax [al-ʾūd al-ratḅ] and many kinds of chinaware vessels, the present being...
monitor underwater and atmospheric tests. Buster-Jangle Uncle Teapot Ess Storax Sedan Sedan Crater Bowline Schooner Nevada Test Site subsidence craters...
clothing and inferior sorts of all kinds; bright-colored girdles a cubit wide; storax, sweet clover, flint glass, realgar, antimony, gold and silver coin, on...
Following the success of Operation Grapple in which the United Kingdom became the third nation to acquire thermonuclear weapons after the United States...
Other flora in the forest includes terebinths (Pistacia terebinthus), storax trees (Styrax officinalis), carobs (Ceratonia siliqua), buckthorns (Rhamnus...
merchants selling in Barbaricum "thin clothing, figured linens, topaz, coral, storax, frankincense, vessels of glass, silver and gold plate, and a little wine"...
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