Canopus (or Opération Canopus) was the codename of the first French two-stage thermonuclear test. It was conducted by the Pacific Carrier Battle Group...

refer to: Canopus (insect), Neotropical bug genus Canopus (mythology), in Homeric myth, the pilot of King Menelaus's ship Canopus (nuclear test) was the...

Nuclear weapons testing is the act of experimentally and deliberately firing one or more nuclear devices in a controlled manner pursuant to a military...

Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Nuclear testing...

possess independent (non-NATO) nuclear weapons. France was the fourth country to test an independently developed nuclear weapon, doing so in 1960 under...

 'Blue Jerboa') was the codename of the first French nuclear test. It was conducted by the Nuclear Experiments Operational Group (GOEN), a unit of the...

conducted overt nuclear tests. North Korea had been a party to the NPT but withdrew in 2003. Israel is also generally understood to have nuclear weapons, but...

explosive yield of a nuclear weapon is the amount of energy released such as blast, thermal, and nuclear radiation, when that particular nuclear weapon is detonated...

1968 – French 'Canopus' test: CTBTO Preparatory Commission". www.ctbto.org. Retrieved 15 April 2017. "France | Countries | NTI". The Nuclear Threat Initiative...

Agate was the codename of the first French nuclear underground test. It was conducted by the Joint Special Weapons Command on 7 November 1961, at the Oasis...

President Harry S. Truman, eight days after the first successful test of a nuclear weapon. Despite their wartime military alliance, the United States...

1966 to 1996 it was used as a nuclear test site by the French government. In total, 4 atmospheric and 10 underground nuclear explosions were carried out...

the end of World War II. August 24 – Canopus (nuclear test): France explodes its first hydrogen bomb in a test at Fangataufa atoll in French Polynesia...

Gerboise Blanche) was the codename of the second French nuclear test. It was conducted by the Nuclear Experiments Operational Group (GOEN), a unit of the...

device in the "Canopus" test in August 1968. On 11 May 1998, India announced that it has detonated a hydrogen bomb in its Operation Shakti tests ("Shakti I"...

Operation Canopus. A total of 46 aerial nuclear tests were carried out in Polynesia, using a variety of techniques: barge testing; tethered balloon tests; aircraft...

coordinates) The France's 1966–1970 nuclear test series was a group of 22 nuclear tests conducted in 1966–1970. These tests followed the In Ekker series and...

from Earth, is approximately 23 times more luminous than the Sun, while Canopus, the second brightest star in the night sky with an absolute magnitude...

"AS", were USS Alert (AS-4), USS Camden (AS-6) US Rainbow (AS-7) and USS Canopus (AS-9). The USS Beaver was the first specially built submarine tender,...

sailed to Moruroa Atoll in official protest of the French Canopus atmospheric nuclear test. On 27 December 1974, Supply sailed from Sydney as part of...

control systems for ordinary nuclear reactors. The normal method to tolerate faults is to have several computers continually test the parts of a system, and...

Nondestructive Testing for Level 3 NDT personnel. NAVSEA 250-1500 is another US central certification scheme, specifically developed for use in the naval nuclear program...

Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980). Canopus, a benevolent galactic empire centred at Canopus in the constellation Argo Navis, colonises a young...

the Port of Auckland on her way to a protest against a planned French nuclear test in Moruroa. Fernando Pereira, a photographer, drowned on the sinking...

contrast to distant, highly luminous supergiants such as Canopus, Rigel or Betelgeuse (although Canopus may be a bright giant). It is still around 25 times...

particles. Perfusion of various tissues can be readily measured in vivo with nuclear medicine methods which are mainly positron emission tomography (PET) and...

carrier was deployed to the south Pacific for French nuclear bomb testing in Polynesia including Canopus, the first French hydrogen bomb. With the deployment...

USS Chickasaw (ATF-83), nuclear test participant USS Cree (ATF-84), nuclear tests participant USS Lipan (ATF-85), nuclear tests participant USS Mataco...

returning on board in Holy Loch. It tied up alongside the submarine tender USS Canopus. 1970 and 1971, the Gold and Blue crews repeated the sequence except that...

alongside either submarine tender USS Simon Lake or submarine tender USS Canopus through 1972. In early March 1972, Abraham Lincoln departed for the United...