WHEELER DETONATION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 6, 1957

NEVADA TEST SITE

The 17th atomic nuclear test of Operation Plumbbob, code named "Wheeler, briefly lights Yucca Flat as it is detonated from a balloon at a height of 500 feet.

Credit Lookout Mountain Laboratory, USAF


[Radioactive Cloud Track]

[Operation: Plumbbob]