HARDTACK-Teak was an exoatmospheric high altitude nuclear weapon test performed during Operation Newsreel. It was launched from Johnston Atoll on a Redstone...
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Map all coordinates in "Operation Hardtack I" using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary...
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Teak (Tectona grandis) is a species of large, deciduous tree. Teak may also refer to: Teak furniture Teak Museum, in India Hardtack Teak, a nuclear weapon...
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potential as an anti-satellite weapon became apparent in August 1958 during Hardtack Teak. The EMP observed at the Apia Observatory at Samoa was four times more...
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satellites that are currently in orbit. Christofilos effect Operation Argus Hardtack Teak Outer Space Treaty Soviet Project K nuclear tests Starfish Prime Operation...
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orbiting space vehicles that might enter the belt." Prior to Argus, Hardtack Teak had shown disruption of radio communications from a nuclear blast, though...
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carry a live nuclear warhead, in the 1958 Pacific Ocean weapons test Hardtack Teak. The Redstone was a direct descendant of the German V-2 rocket, developed...
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of the first conventional missile systems in the 1960s. During the Hardtack Teak test in 1958 observers noted the damaging effects of the electromagnetic...
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was the location of the two "Hardtack I" nuclear tests firings. One conducted August 1, 1958, was codenamed "Hardtack Teak", and one conducted August 12...
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Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved 27 March 2016. Redstone Rocket, Hardtack-Teak Test, August 1958 on YouTube Bucher, G. C.; Mc Call, J. C.; Ordway,...
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conducted its first high yield, high altitude tests – Hardtack Teak on 1 August 1958, and Hardtack Orange on 12 August. These demonstrated a number of previously...
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"Greenhouse" "Grenadier" "Grommet" Cannikin "Guardian" "Hardtack I" "Hardtack Teak" "Hardtack II" "Ivy" "Julin" "Latchkey" "Little Feller" "Mandrel" "Musketeer"...
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Suborbital 1 August Successful Apogee: 100 kilometres (62 mi), observed Hardtack Teak nuclear explosion or its effects 1 August ASCAMP Johnston US Navy NRDL...
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By that time, planning for the 1958 nuclear testing series, Operation Hardtack I, was already nearing completion. This included several high-altitude...
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with 8600 military personnel and 77 spacecraft. Operation Hardtack I Operation Hardtack I was a series of nuclear tests carried out by the United States...
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Test-deployment of the 3.88-megaton Teak via the PGM-11 Redstone rocket during the Hardtack series of nuclear-weapons tests were made possible from the...
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to a detonation altitude of 43 km (27 mi). Both were part of Operation Hardtack I and had a yield of 3.75 Mt Operation Argus: three tests above the South...
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Retrieved January 13, 2016. Seijas, Tatiana (2016). "Inns, mules, and hardtack for the voyage: the local economy of the Manila Galleon in Mexico". Colonial...
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