Castle Romeo
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Castle Romeo was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of U.S. nuclear tests. It was the first test of the TX-17 thermonuclear weapon, the first deployed thermonuclear bomb.
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Country | United States |
Test series | Operation Castle |
Test site | Bikini Atoll |
Date | March 26, 1954 (70 years ago) (1954-03-26) |
Test type | Atmospheric |
Yield | 11 Mt |
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It was detonated on March 26, 1954, at Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands, on a barge moored in the middle of the crater from the Castle Bravo test. It was the first such barge-based test, a necessity that had come about because the powerful thermonuclear devices obliterated the small islands following detonation.