The United States's Sculpin nuclear test series was a group of 7 nuclear tests conducted between October 1990 and September 1991. These testsA 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 Aqueduct'' series and preceded the ''Operation Julin'' series.

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Distant Zenith

Shot ''Distant Zenith'' included the experiment ''Hydroplus''. The Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA) developed a means of verifying non-standard nuclear tests using ground peak stress and velocity at several ranges from a possible detonation point using computer fluid dynamics, hydrocodes. These codes required calibration data which was gathered at Distant Zenith. Further Hydroplus experiments were conducted in shot ''Hunters Trophy'' of Operation Julin.

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