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	Operation Plumbbob - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Operation Plumbbob, conducted between May 28 and October 7, 1957, represented the biggest, longest, and most controversial test series in the history of the Nevada Test Site (NTS).
		While most Operation Plumbbob tests contributed to the development of warheads for intercontinental and intermediate range missiles, they also tested air defense and antisubmarine warheads with small yields.
		Operation Plumbbob had the tallest tower tests to date in the U.S. nuclear testing program, as well as high-altitude balloon tests.
	education.music.us /O/Operation-Plumbbob.htm (884 words)

	OPERATION REDWING - 1956
		This primary was similar to the all oralloy device safety tested in Project 56 #1.
		This primary was used in the Redwing Apache thermonuclear shot, and was similar to the device later fired in Plumbbob Priscilla.
		Crater dimensions were 400 feet wide, 55 feet deep.
	www.radiochemistry.org /history/nuke_tests/redwing/index.html (2193 words)

	Human medical experimentation in the United States: The shocking true history of modern medicine and psychiatry ...
		Choose test subjects justly -- being sure not to target certain groups because of they are easily accessible or easily manipulated, rather than for reasons directly related to the tests (Berdon).
		A study reveals a high incidence of leukemia among the 18,000 military personnel who participated in 1957's Operation Plumbbob (a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob">"Operation Plumbob").
		According to blood samples tested years later for HIV, 20 percent of all New York homosexual men who participated in the 1978 hepatitis B vaccine experiment are HIV-positive by this point (Goliszek).
	www.newstarget.com /019187.html (5757 words)

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