Operation Little Feller 1962

Serie på to amerikanske  atomvåbenforsøg i Nevada forsøgsområdet i den første del af den kolde krig.
Oplysninger om operationen er stadig skjulte som klassificeret eller maskeret information.
Little Feller I og Little Feller II var kodenavne for et sæt af atomprøvesprængninger som led i Operation Sunbeam. De var begge test af oplagrede W54 sprænghoveder, det mindste nukleare sprænghoveder som nogensinde er fremstillet af De Forenede Stater, det blev anvendt i både Davy Crockett sprænhovedet og og i den særlige Atomic Demolition Munition.
Atomvåbenforsøgene foregik ind imellem Operation Storax.
Arkiv: National Archives: Records of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, (Record Group 374), 1943-73.
Atomvåbenforsøgene omfattede / The nuclear weapons tests included
  1. Little Feller II 7. juli 1962 20 kilotons
  2. Little Feller I 17. juli 1962 20 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 ; Mandrel ; Musketeer ; Newsreel ; Niblick ; Nougat ; Phalanx ; Plowshare ; Plumbbob ; Praetorian ; Project 56 ; Project 57 ; Project 58 ; Project 58A ; Quicksilver ; Ranger ; Redwing ; 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.

Litteratur

Army DU License Application for Clean Up of forgotten 1960s M101 Davy Crockett Training Rounds.
Hawaiian activists have made a big deal about the Army's admission that it found that these Davy Crockett M101 training rounds with DU fins simulating the weight of the tactical nuclear weapon. They claim that the Army lied to them for years, but if you read this application, you will find that the Army basically forgot about ever having fired these training rounds in the 1960's. Then they found some in Hawaii and they filed an application with the NRC (which did not exist in the 1960's when these training rounds were lobbed into a firing range) to possess and clean up these rounds on firing ranges wherever they might be.
http://www.archive.org/details/ArmyDuLicenseApplicationForCleanUpOfForgotten1960sM101DavyCrockett
Operation Sun Beam, Shots Little Feller I and II: Project Officers Report-- Project 1.9 : Crater Size and Shape / A. D. Rooke, Jr., Project Officer ; J. N. Strange U. S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS. 25 March 1965. - Washington, DC: Defense Nuclear agency.. 1985, - 49 s.
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA995371
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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