The United States's Cresset nuclear test series was a group of 22

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

s conducted in 1977–1978. 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 Fulcrum The United States's Fulcrum nuclear test series was a group of 21 nuclear tests conducted in 1976–1977. These tests A bomb test may be a salvo test, defined as two or more explosions "where a period of time between successive individual expl ...

'' series and preceded the '' Operation Quicksilver'' series.

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Cresset A cresset is a metal cup or basket, often mounted to or suspended from a pole, containing oil, pitch, a rope steeped in rosin or something flammable. They are burned as a light or beacon. Cressets mounted on the walls of Renaissance palaces in ...