Talk:Operation Buster-Jangle

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[edit] Able yield

Surely not "less than a kilogram"! Morelikely, "less than a kiloton"...yes?

Basesurge (talk) 11:44, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

No, Able was a complete fizzle; while it achieved supercriticality and generated a detectable nuclear yield as evidenced by radiation readings, the nuclear yield was less than the yield of the high-explosive trigger; all sources I've seen list it as a yield of "less than two pounds" or "less than one kilogram," citing the official report on the test series, which lists it in metric measure. Rdfox 76 (talk) 16:53, 8 June 2008 (UTC)