Operation Fishbowl - high altitude weapons effects : unclassified original

Operation Fishbowl - high altitude weapons effects : unclassified original

Las Vegas, NV : U.S. DOE/Nevada Operations Office, 1956.

English

1 videocassette (28 min, 10 sec) : black and white ; 1/2 in. (VHS).

"The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Albuquerque Operatons Office, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), is committed to making available to the public historically significant films describing various aspects of the U.S. nuclear weapons development program. The process of declassifying these films is an ongoing task. The enclosed fact sheets provide information on each video."
Operation Fishbowl, the Department of Defense’s high altitude testing portion of Operation Dominic I, was conducted in the Johnston Island area of the Pacific testing area in 1962. These five weapons-effects tests, launched by Strypi, Thor, and Nike Hercules rockets, were as follows: • STARFISH PRIME, July 9, 400-kilometer altitude, 1.4 megaton • CHECKMATE, October 20, tens of ki lometers altitude, low • BLUEGILL 3 PRIME, October 26, tens of kilometers altitude, submegaton • KINGFISH, November 1, tens of kilometers altitude; submegaton • TIGHTROPE, November 4, tens of kilometers altitude, low Two goals of these tests were to determine if radiation and blast and heat effects of high-altitude detonations were capable of neutralizing an enemy reentry vehicle and capable of determining the blackout effects on radar and communications of various yields and altitudes of bursts.

This is a declassified US Department of Energy video on the Ivy Flats project.

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