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Orange Herald (small) warhead prepared for test at the Christmas Island Grapple series on 31 May 1957. Yield was 720 kT. The spherical implosion device is seen in this photograph housed in the centre section of a Blue Danube carcass with the nose, tail and panelling removed. The 32-lens implosion system can be clearly seen. The firing unit adapted from Blue Danube can be see at the top left attached to the tubular bulkhead, and with 64 cables radiating from it. Each of the 32 firing cables was duplicated.

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Scanned from the official history and uploaded by Brian.Burnell 23:54, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
Published in the official history:Britain and the H-Bomb.
Author: Lorna Arnold OBE.
Published MacMillan-Palgrave 2001.
ISBN 0-312-23518-6 in North America.
ISBN 0-333-94742-8 elsewhere

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