The United States's Grommet nuclear test series
was a group of 34
nuclear test
Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Nuclear testing is a sensitive political issue. Governments have often performed tests to signal strength. Bec ...
s conducted in 1971–1972. 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 Emery'' series and preceded the ''
Operation Toggle
The United States's Toggle nuclear test series was a group of 28 nuclear tests conducted in 1972–1973. 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.
List of the nuclear tests
References
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Explosions in 1971
Explosions in 1972
1971 in military history
1972 in military history
Grommet
Curtain grommets, used among others in shower curtains
A grommet is a ring or edge strip inserted into a hole through thin material, typically a sheet of textile fabric, sheet metal or composite of carbon fiber, wood or honeycomb. Grommets are ...