Nuclear explosion 3 (Joe 3) data

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Country
USSR
Operation
1951
Date
1951-10-18
Yield
42 kT

USSR - 1951 - 3 (Joe 3)

Device Type: Sloika (wedding cake) Device: RDS-3 First thermonuclear explosion. Used sloika Layer-cake method where primary is wrapped in shells of lithium and tamper.

Base info

USSR - Year 1951 - 42 kT out of 80 kT

53%

Location

Semiplatinsk Test Site - 42 kT out of 6.9 MT

0.6%

Purposes

Deliveries

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