Thursday, May 15, 2008
This Day in the History of Thermonuclear Firsts
On this day in 1957, Britain joined an exclusive club when it tested its first fusion device over Christmas Island in the Pacific due south of Hawaii, one of a number of weapons tests in the "Grapple" series.
The photo shows what occurred within microseconds of detonation.
Labels: Cold War History; Nuclear tests
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:33 AM 
