Operation Redwing 1956

Operation Vindrossel. Serie på 17 amerikanske  atomvåbenforsøg i Forsøgsområderne i Stillehavet i den første del af den kolde krig.
Oplysninger om operationen er stadig skjulte som klassificeret eller maskeret information.
Forsøgene kom efter Operation Wigwam og fortsættes med Operation Plumbbob.
Arkiv: National Archives: Records of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, (Record Group 374), 1943-73.
Atomvåbenforsøgene omfattede / The nuclear weapons tests included
  1. Lacrosse 4. maj Enewetakatollen 40 kilotons
  2. Cherokee 20. maj Bikiniatollen 3.8 megatons
  3. Zuni 27. maj Bikiniatollen 3.5 mt
  4. Yuma 27. maj Enewetakatollen 190 t
  5. Erie 30. maj Enewetakatollen 14.9 kt
  6. Seminole 6. juni Enewetakatollen 13.7 kt
  7. Flathead 11. juni Bikiniatollen 365 kt
  8. Blackfoot 11. juni Enewetakatollen 8 kt
  9. Kickapoo 13. juni Enewetakatollen 1.49 kt
  10. Osage 16. juni Enewetakatollen 1.7 kt
  11. Inca 21. juni Enewetakatollen 15.2 kt
  12. Dakota 25. juni Bikiniatollen 1.1 mt
  13. Mohawk 2. juli Enewetakatollen 360 kt
  14. Apache 8. juli Bikiniatollen 1.85 mt
  15. Navajo 10. juli Bikiniatollen 4.5 mt
  16. Tewa 20. juli Bikiniatollen 5 mt
  17. Huron 21. juli Enewetakatollen 250 kt
Se tillige: Operation Anvil ; Aqueduct ; Arbor ; Argus ; Bedrock ; Bowline ; Buster-Jangle ; Castle ; Chariot ; Charioteer ; Cornerstone ; Cresset ; Crossroads ; Crosstie ; Cue ; Dominic ; Dominic II ; Dugout ; Emery ; Fishbowl ; Flintlock ; Fulcrum ; Fusileer ; Greenhouse ; Grenadier ; Grommet ; Guardian ; Hardtack I ; Hardtack II ; Ivy ; Julin ; Latchkey ; Little Feller ; Mandrel ; Musketeer ; Newsreel ; Niblick ; Nougat ; Phalanx ; Plowshare ; Plumbbob ; Praetorian ; Project 56 ; Project 57 ; Project 58 ; Project 58A ; Quicksilver ; Ranger ; Roller Coaster ; Sandstone ; Sculpin ; Storax ; Sunbeam ; Teapot ; Tinderbox ; Toggle ; Touchstone ; Trinity ; Tumbler-Snapper ; Upshot-Knothole ; Whetstone ; Wigwam.
Miljøforurening
/ Contamination, environmental pollution
Se også: Barium ; beryllium ; cerium ; cæsium ; jod ; krypton ; lanthanum ; molybdæn ; neptunium ; niobium ; plutonium ; polonium ; radioaktivitet ; ruthenium ; strontium-90 ; tellur ; tritium ; uran ; xenon ; zirkonium.
Se også: Department of Defense: Radiation Experiments Command Center ; National Association Of Radiation Survivors

Litteratur

Completion Report - Operation Redwing.
DOE/NV Nuclear Testing Archive, 1956. - 328 s. - https://www.osti.gov/opennet/detail.jsp?osti_id=16381311&query_id=0
Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Brief descriptions of document collections acquired as of june 16, 1995.
- http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/research/docs/precis.txt
Department of Defense: Report on Search for Human Radiation Experiment Records 1944-1994, 1997. I-III. - 101+60+92 s.
Appendix I Results of DoD Human Radiation Experiment Records Search - 390 s.
Appendix II Information Sources - 89 s.
Appendix III Acronyms and Abbreviations/ Appendix IV Radiation Terms
http://www.defense.gov/pubs/dodhre/
Hacker, Barton C.: Elements of controversy: the Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974. University of California Press, 1994 - 614 pp.
United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 through September 1992.
U.S. Department of Energy Nevada Operations Office, DOE/NV--209-REV 15, December 2000.


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