Nuclear explosion 24 Binarnaya (Joe 19) data

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Country
USSR
Operation
1955
Date
1955-11-22
Yield
2.0 MT

USSR - 1955 - 24 Binarnaya (Joe 19)

Device Type: Multistage Device: RDS-37 Soviet superbomb. 2 stage radiation implosion ( Sakharov's third idea the equivalent to the Teller-Ullam design). Three people were killed in a building collapse because an inversion layer focused the energy more than expected.

Base info

USSR - 2.0 MT out of 303.6 MT

0.7%

USSR - Year 1955 - 2.0 MT out of 2.3 MT

88%

Location

Semiplatinsk Test Site - 2.0 MT out of 6.9 MT

29%

Purposes

Weapon Development - 2.0 MT out of 528.3 MT

0.4%

Military tests - 2.0 MT out of 544.5 MT

0.4%

Deliveries

Atmospheric - 2.0 MT out of 295.4 MT

0.7%

Air - 2.0 MT out of 188.9 MT

1.1%

Air drop - 2.0 MT out of 165.6 MT

1.2%

Semiplatinsk Test Site Map