GALILEO DETONATION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 2, 1957

NEVADA TEST SITE

The 16th full-scale nuclear test of Operation Plumbbob, is detonated on a 500-foot tower in Yucca Flat. The shot, code named "Galileo, was fired at 5:40 a.m., PDT, and was predicted to be in the range of about half-nominal in explosive force."

Credit Lookout Mountain Laboratory, USAF


[Detonation of Galileo (Color Photo)]
[Operation: Plumbbob]