KEPLER DETONATION

July 24, 1957

NEVADA TEST SITE

Kepler, a Los Alamos Laboratory designed experimental device, was fired at 4:50 a.m. today as the ninth full scale detonation in the series. It was fired from a 500-foot tower in a Yucca Flat test area.

Photo Credit Los Alamos National Laboratory


[Fallout Pattern of Kepler]

[Radioactive Cloud Track]