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Flash, Bang but no Wallop – the story of Operation Grapple Britain’s H Bomb Tests

  Operation Grapple was the name given to the series of British Nuclear tests of the Hydrogen bomb, they were conducted between 1956 and 1958 at Malden Island (now called Kirimati) in the Central Pacific and at Christmas Island. There…
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Flash, Bang but no Wallop – the story of Operation Grapple Britain’s H Bomb Tests

Christmas Island Chart
  Operation Grapple was the name given to the series of British Nuclear tests of the Hydrogen bomb, they were conducted between 1956 and 1958 at Malden Island (now called…
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