Nancy Nuclear Weapon Test - Upshot/Knothole Operation

Nevada Test Site
24 March 1953

Image courtesy of the Department of Energy

The Nancy test had a 24 kiloton yield (equivilent to 24000 tons of TNT).
Sgt Richard M. Bosecker US Army [Born: 1930], GG-Grandson of Johannes Boßecker, witnessed the blast.

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This page was posted on 17 Oct 1997.
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