Atomic Veterans Photo Album

Operation Castle, 1954

This weapon was flown in on a B-36, assembled at Perry island, then transfered to a barge and detonated.

The fifth shot: Yankee is seen in a frame of 14 X 18 miles at a distance of 50 miles, altitude 10,000 feet.

This barge containing the Nectar device floats over the spot where the island of Elugalab once was, it is now called the Mike Crater.

The last shot of the thermonuclear Castle Series detonates with 1.7 Mt. of explosive energy.

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