Operation Hardtack I was a series of 35 nuclear tests conducted by the United States from April 28 to August 18 in 1958 at the Pacific Proving Grounds. [1] [2]: 212 At the time of testing, the Operation Hardtack I test series included more nuclear detonations than the total of prior nuclear explosions in the Pacific Ocean.
Operation HARDTACK was the designation given to the atmospheric nuclear test series conducted by the United States in the Pacific Ocean and Nevada from April 28 to October 31, 1958.
A modified Yellowwood design was successfully refired in Hardtack I Oak (below). This system was eventually developed into the W-53 9 Mt Titan-II warhead and the B-53 strategic bomb. The shot barge for Yellowwood was ballasted with 225 tons of silica sand, in an attempt to reduce biosphere exposure to strontium-90.
Operation Hardtack I was a series of 35 nuclear tests conducted by the United States from April 28 to August 18 in 1958 at the Pacific Proving Grounds. At the time of testing, the Operation Hardtack I test series included more nuclear detonations than the total of all prior nuclear explosions in the Pacific Ocean.
HARDTACK was the designation giftn~to the atmospheric nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States in the Pacific Ocean and in Nevada in 1958. Operation HARDTACK I was a series of 35 tests.
Operation Hardtack I consisted of 35 nuclear tests conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground between April 28 and August 18, 1958. These tests included balloon, surface, barge, underwater, and rocket-borne high-altitude tests.
HARDTACK I1 was the continental phase of Operation HARDTACK. It followed Operation HARDTACK I, the nuclear test series conducted in the Pacific Ocean from April to August 1958. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), in conjunction with Field Command, Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP) , the Off ice of Civil and Defense Mobilization (OCDM ...