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Operation Hardtack I is the name given to a series of 35 nuclear tests made at the Pacific Proving Grounds by the United States from April to October 1958. It follows Project 58A and precedes Operation Argus.
Operation Newsreel is the name given to a series of three high-altitude nuclear tests carried out as part of Operation Hardtack I. The tests are called "Orange", "Teak" and "Yucca". Crater created on May 5, 1958 by the Cactus explosion on the island of Runit in Eniwetok Atoll (11 ° 33 '09 "N, 162 ° 20' 50" E). In 1977-1980, 84,000 m of radioactive soils from the contaminated islands of Eniwetok Atoll were buried in the Cactus crater, which was then covered with a concrete dome dubbed "Cactus Dome". ".
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