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    Map all coordinates in "Operation Storax" using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary...
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    timing of the test put it within the Operation Storax fiscal year, but Sedan was functionally part of Operation Plowshare, and the test protocol was sponsored...
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    Map all coordinates in "Operation Fishbowl" using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary...
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  • and the particles released. The tests followed the Operation Storax series and preceded the Operation Niblick series. The US, France and Great Britain have...
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    test shot was the "Sedan" shot of Operation Storax on July 6, 1962, a 104-kiloton-of-TNT (440 TJ) shot for Operation Plowshare, which sought to prove that...
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    may alternatively be considered the last aboveground nuclear test. "Operation Storax" Archived May 17, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Carey Sublette, NuclearWeaponArchive...
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    Springs AFB served as a support base for projects from Operation Ranger in 1951 to Operation Storax in 1962." "The 4935th Air Base Squadron was activated...
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    ICBM), so by itself it did not satisfy all concerns. Shot Sedan of Operation Storax on 6 July 1962 (yield of 104 kilotons), was an attempt to show the...
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    rocket. A dramatically different test shot was the "Sedan" test of Operation Storax on July 6, 1962, a 104 kiloton shot for Project Plowshare which sought...
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    ICBM), so by itself, it did not satisfy all concerns. Shot Sedan of Operation Storax on 6 July 1962 (yield of 104 kilotons), was an attempt at showing the...
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  • Energy's Nevada Test Site. The Sedan nuclear test carried out as part of Operation Storax displaced 12 million tons of earth, creating the largest man-made crater...
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  • resumed testing. Two American test series followed: Operation Nougat, and then Operation Storax. The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty went into effect...
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    developed from atmospheric testing during Operation Sandstone in the spring of 1948. During the operation, an aircraft accidentally flew through an atomic...
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    Nuclearweaponarchive.org. Retrieved on May 1, 2011. Operation Hardtack I. Nuclearweaponarchive.org. Retrieved on May 1, 2011. Operation Redwing. Nuclearweaponarchive.org...
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    myrrh, as galbanum, and onyx, and sweet storax, and as the fume of frankincense in the tabernacle.” The storax of antiquity was styrax. The writer refers...
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    In 1839, Eduard Simon discovered polystyrene by accident by distilling storax. In 1856, William Henry Perkin discovered the first synthetic dye, Mauveine...
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    actually carried out by the United Kingdom at the NTS; four aborted tests in Operation Fishbowl; one test, Anvil/Peninsula, that jammed during lowering in its...
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    was discovered in 1839 by Eduard Simon, an apothecary from Berlin. From storax, the resin of the Oriental sweetgum tree Liquidambar orientalis, he distilled...
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    woven with gold [al-thiyāb al-kamkhāt al-mudhahhabah], top quality musk, storax [al-ʾūd al-ratḅ] and many kinds of chinaware vessels, the present being...
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    monitor underwater and atmospheric tests. Buster-Jangle Uncle Teapot Ess Storax Sedan Sedan Crater Bowline Schooner Nevada Test Site subsidence craters...
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  • clothing and inferior sorts of all kinds; bright-colored girdles a cubit wide; storax, sweet clover, flint glass, realgar, antimony, gold and silver coin, on...
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    "Quicksilver" "Ranger" "Redwing" "Roller Coaster" "Sandstone" "Sculpin" "Storax" "Sunbeam" "Teapot" "Tinderbox" "Toggle" "Touchstone" "Trinity" "Tumbler–Snapper"...
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    Following the success of Operation Grapple in which the United Kingdom became the third nation to acquire thermonuclear weapons after the United States...
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    Other flora in the forest includes terebinths (Pistacia terebinthus), storax trees (Styrax officinalis), carobs (Ceratonia siliqua), buckthorns (Rhamnus...
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    merchants selling in Barbaricum "thin clothing, figured linens, topaz, coral, storax, frankincense, vessels of glass, silver and gold plate, and a little wine"...
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