The United States's Whetstone nuclear test series was a group of 46

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 1964–1965. 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 five 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 Niblick'' series and preceded the '' Operation Flintlock'' series. Two tests were conducted during this series by the United Kingdom: ''Cormorant'' and ''Courser''.

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