Christmas Island Bomb Testing

Received this from brian batty the whole of 36 corps engineer regiment corps was part of the regiment s title since it was under the direct command of the 1 br corps commander and thus corps troops was on christmas island pacific ocean during the period 1957 9 literally at the end of the operation grapple x y z series atomic bomb tests having left a rear party only in.

Christmas island bomb testing. Military operations in christmas island areas operation crossroads where some 200 nuclear devices were tested in water over land and som. The tests ended six years later and parts of the island were sealed off. The devastating atomic history of christmas island h bomb jpg. The first successful british hydrogen bomb grapple x dropped near christmas island in 1957.

In 1957 the british military began conducting nuclear tests in the pacific ocean and based themselves on christmas island. Derek frank heaps both visited malden island another testing site in the pacific the day after an atom bomb had been exploded over it and witnessed a further testing of an atom bomb from an. The british nuclear weapon tests on kiritimati or christmas island had profound and lasting cultural consequences for both atomic veterans and local islanders. A mushroom cloud rises over the pacific ocean following the detonation of britain s first h bomb near christmas island.

This first bomb was code named. Christmas and malden islands operation grapple consisted of nine detonations over christmas island and malden island in the south pacific ocean between november 1957 and september 1958. 1946 clip of u s.