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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 17. december 1980 / Time Line December 17, 1980

16. December 1980, 18. December 1980

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Operation Guardian - UK Hurdle Prime
Underjordisk  amerikansk - britisk atomvåbenforsøg i Nevada.
/ Underground American - British nuclear weapons tests in Nevada.
/ Souterrains américain - britanniques essais d'armes nucléaires dans le Nevada.
/ Subterráneos americano - British pruebas de armas nucleares en Nevada.
/ Unterirdischen amerikanisch - britischen Atomwaffentests in Nevada
According to Margaret Thatcher Foundation's, Margaret Thatcher's files as Prime Minister, 1981 'even includes outline details of British nuclear tests, done at American sites at what must surely have been a bargain price (£5m for our place on the 1981 programme). The oddly named "Hurdle Prime" provided us with the data needed to design the basic warhead, detonated at 1510 London time 17 December 1980, while MT and senior colleagues sat in a Cabinet Committee meeting at No.10.
Kilder: Margaret Thatcher Foundation: Margaret Thatcher's files as Prime Minister, 1981, 2011.
- http://www.margaretthatcher.org/archive/1981_PREM19.asp
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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