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Nuclear test case: "Storax Sedan"

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In 1962 United States conducted one of the first underground nuclear tests in history and the name of this test was "Storax Sedan". There was one underground test before that, and it was codenamed "Plumbbob Rainier", and it was a 1,7 kiloton nuclear detonation, what mission was to test the systems for underground nuclear tests, what was only allowed a way to test nuclear detonations after 1963, and the nuclear test prohibiting treaty, what prohibited atmospheric, undersea and orbital nuclear tests. Underground tests were allowed because the development of nuclear explosives wanted to allow for scientific and civilian purposes like mining operations and making artificial rivers.


The mission of "Sedan" was to demonstrate high yield underground nuclear detonations and this 104 kiloton device made the crater in the Nevada Test site, what is the national monument. "Sedan" caused very large radioactive fallout around the USA, and that would cause the rise of the resistance against nuclear power and weapons. This device is claimed to give information about the civilian applications of the nuclear weapons. But the truth is that no explosives have only one field of use, and sometimes is claimed that "Sedan" was planned to be the detonator for the bunker buster nuclear weapons.


There is claiming that the USA or Russia have tested the nuclear weapon, what is carried with the similar drills, what is used in some tunnel working sites. Those drills would be dropped near the targeted bunker, and then they would dig those weapons deep inside the ground. And then this weapon would be exploded. The system would be actually laser-drill, what would make the hole for the bomb, what will drop in the tunnel, and the explosion would destroy the target.


 Or sometimes this weapon is called to use the subcritical nuclear mass for making the hole in the ground. The liquid and extreme hot nuclear material will melt the rock and open the route for the hydrogen bomb. In some rumors that weapon would equip with the small nuclear reactor, what mission will be cover this weapon with high-powerful radiation, and that would deny attempts to disarm that weapon, what would seem like the tube, that stands on the feet. And when the hole would be deep enough, the detonation device would be dropped in there.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedan_(nuclear_test)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob

https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Plumbob.html

https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Storax.html

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