atomic test
1Agathe (atomic test) — Agathe (aka Agate) was the name of the first French nuclear underground test. It was an atomic bomb detonated in the Hoggar mount (near In Ekker) of the then French Sahara desert on November 21, 1961, during the Algerian War (1954–62)[1]. Agathe… …
2Test No. 6 — Country China Test site Lop Nur Test Base Period June 17, 1967 Number of tests 1 Test type Atmospheric Device type Fusion Max. yield …
3Atomic demolition munitions — (ADMs), colloquially known as nuclear land mines, are small nuclear explosive devices. ADMs were developed for both military and civilian purposes. As weapons, they were designed to be exploded in the forward battle area, in order to block or… …
4Atomic Weapons Detection Recognition and Estimation of Yield — known by the accronym AWDREY was a desk mounted automatic detection instrument, located at the twenty five Royal Observer Corps controls, across the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, during the Cold War that would have detected any nuclear… …
5Atomic Age — This article is about the historical era. For the comic book miniseries, see Atomic Age (comics). An early nuclear power plant that used atomic energy to generate electricity. The Atomic Age, also known as the Atomic Era, is a phrase typically… …
6Test-and-set — In computer science, the test and set instruction is an instruction used to both test and (conditionally) write to a memory location as part of a single atomic (i.e. non interruptible) operation. This means setting a value, but first performing… …
7Atomic tourism — Tourists at ground zero, Trinity site. Atomic tourism is a relatively new style of tourism in which visitors learn about the Atomic Age by traveling to significant sites in atomic history such as museums with atomic weapons, vehicles that carried …
8Atomic Weapons Establishment — Location map|Berkshire label = lat = 51.362778 long = 1.139444 caption = Map showing the location of the Atomic Weapons Establishment at grid reference gbmapscaled|SU600630|25|SU600630 float = right background= white width = 175: For the World… …
9Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — Part of the Pacific War, World War II …
10Atomic Testing Museum — The Atomic Testing Museum museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, documents the history of nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) in the desert north of Las Vegas. The museum opened in March 2005. The museum covers the period from the first test at… …
