Operation Wigwam 1955

Amerikansk atomvåbenforsøg i Stillehavet i den første del af den kolde krig.
Oplysninger om operationen er stadig skjulte som klassificeret information. Operation Wigwam var en enkelt test af en Mark 90 Betty atombombe. Den blev gennemført mellem Operation Teapot og Operation Redwing den 14. maj 1955, omkring 500 miles sydvest for San Diego, Californien. Forsøget fortsættes senere på året med Project 56 i Nevada forsøgsområdet.
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 57 ; Project 58 ; Project 58A ; Quicksilver ; Ranger ; Roller Coaster ; Sandstone ; Sculpin ; Storax ; Sunbeam ; Tinderbox ; Toggle ; Touchstone ; Trinity ; Tumbler-Snapper ; Upshot-Knothole ; Whetstone.
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.

Litteratur

Defense Treath Reduction Agency: Operation Wigwam, 2007.
Department of Energy, & Department of Defense: Nuclear Test Film - Operation Wigwam (1955).
http://www.archive.org/details/gov.doe.0800018
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.
Operation Wigwam : United States Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests : Nuclear Test Personnel Review / S.E. Weary, W.J. Ozeroff, J.L. Sperling, B . Collins, C.W. Lowery, S.K. Obermiller. Defense Nuclear Agency, 1981 - 266 s.
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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