Nuclear explosion Zebra data

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Country
USA
Operation
Sandstone
Date
1948-05-14
Yield
18 kT

USA - Sandstone - Zebra

Device Type: Implosion composite core Device: Mk-3 Type Bpure oralloy core levitated core. 2.38kg pu + 4.77kg uralloy (composed not shaken) yielded 37kT at 21% efficiency. Considered so optimal that it was put into immediate production for Mark 4.

Base info

Operation Sandstone - 18 kT out of 104 kT

17%

Locations

Runit (Yvonne) - 18 kT out of 1.1 MT

1.6%

Purposes

Deliveries

Tower - 18 kT out of 2.5 MT

0.7%

Enewetak Runit (Yvonne) Map