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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 18 december 1970 / Time Line December 18, 1970

17. December 1970, 19. December 1970

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Vietnamkrigen
USA starter den hidtil største luft offensiv mod
Den Demokratiske Republik Vietnam.

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Operation Emery - Baneberry
Underjordisk  amerikansk  atomvåbenforsøg i Nevada.
/ Underground U.S. nuclear weapons tests in Nevada.
Although the 10 kiloton device was detonated at 270 metres below the surface, a large cloud of radioactive dust was released into the atmosphere. A nuclear testing cloud could be observed as far away as Las Vegas, 120 kilometres from the test site. According to a report from the National Cancer Institute, Baneberry released 80,000 curies of radioactive iodine-131 into the atmosphere - more than any other U.S. underground nuclear test and comparable to a smaller atmospheric nuclear test. The radioactive dust reached a height of around three kilometres, from where it was carried by winds into several adjacent U.S. states.
Sources: National Cancer Institute: History of the Nevada Test Site and Nuclear Testing Background.
- http://www.cancer.gov/i131/fallout/Chapter2.pdf
US Atomic Energy Commission: Baneberry summary report. May 1971. - 16 s.
/ Souterrains américains essais d'armes nucléaires dans le Nevada
/ Subterráneo de Estados Unidos las pruebas de armas nucleares en Nevada.
/ Unterirdisch US Atomwaffentests in Nevada.
Kilde: United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 through September 1992.
U.S. Department of Energy Nevada Operations Office, DOE/NV--209-REV 15, December 2000.

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