What is the name given to the final series of 7 US nuclear tests that took place in 1991 to 1992?
Julin Bristol Julin Bristol is the codename given to a nuclear weapon test conducted at the Nevada Test Site on 26 November 1991. Conducted as part of Operation Julin, the final series of US nuclear tests, it was the last test explosion of a British nuclear weapon. Both the US and UK, as signatories of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, ceased nuclear testing after Operation Julin.
Cannikin Cannikin was an underground nuclear weapons test performed on November 6, 1971, on Amchitka island, Alaska, by the United States Atomic Energy Commission. The experiment, part of the Operation Grommet nuclear test series, tested the warhead design for the LIM-49 Spartan anti-ballistic missile. With an explosive yield of almost 5-megatons TNT equivalent, the test was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States.