Operation Redwing 1956
Advanced thermonuclear weapon development — including first airborne H-bomb drop
Year
1956
Tests
17
Max yield
5 Mt
Hiroshimas
333
Films
1
Seventeen tests. Included the first air-dropped thermonuclear bomb (Cherokee, 3.8 Mt). Also tested the Lacrosse, the first surface-to-surface missile nuclear warhead. Massive series covering the full range of U.S. nuclear capabilities.
- Location
- Enewetak Atoll & Bikini Atoll
- Country
- USA
- Coordinates
- 11.5, 162.2 · view on map →
Films (1)