The United States's Toggle nuclear test series was a group of 28

nuclear test Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine nuclear weapons' effectiveness, Nuclear weapon yield, yield, and explosive capability. Testing nuclear weapons offers practical information about how the weapons function, how detona ...

s conducted in 1972–1973. These tests A bomb test may be a salvo test, defined as two or more explosions "where a period of time between successive individual explosions does not exceed 5 seconds and where the burial points of all explosive devices can be connected by segments of straight lines, each of them connecting two burial points and does not exceed 40 kilometers in length". followed the ''

Operation Grommet The United States's Grommet nuclear test series was a group of 34 nuclear tests conducted in 1971–1972. These testsA bomb test may be a salvo test, defined as two or more explosions "where a period of time between successive individual explos ...

'' series and preceded the '' Operation Arbor'' series.

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Diamond Sculls

''Diamond Sculls'' was a horizontal line-of-sight (HLOS) nuclear test. Its purpose was to test the radiation hardness of the

LIM-49 Spartan The LIM-49 Spartan was a United States Army anti-ballistic missile, designed to intercept attacking nuclear warheads from Intercontinental ballistic missiles at long range and while still outside the atmosphere. For actual deployment, a five-me ...

anti-ballistic missile. It was the largest HLOS test conducted by the United States, consisting of a diameter test chamber and a line-of-sight pipe.

List of the nuclear tests

References

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