r.
After having been delayed three weeks because of technical difficulties
with the device, HURON, originally scheduled for Bikini, was changed to Eniwetok
and detonated on a barge at 0616 on 22 July.
operation by about five days.
safety precautions were taken.
This change in site shortened the
Again, due to expected high yield, additional
This was the last detonation of the REDWING
series.
6. DEVICES
a. GENERAL
(1) The test series was designed to achieve four objectives vital to
the contimed progress in research and development of atomic weapons amd in the
improvement of atomic defense.
These were:
(a) To proof test certain weapons in stockpile or to be stockpiled in the near future.
(b)
To continue developmental research on promising weapons.
(c)
To continue long range weapon research of new techniques,
ideas and designs.
(d)
To conduct a weapon effects program required by the Depart-
ment of Defense.
(2)
Certain aspects of this test series were of particular interest,
The program incorporated a proof test of a stockpile fusion veopon
and a smail fission warhead
for air-to-air rockets.
Class D thermonuclear weapon, that is, one
The quest for a
weighirg not more than three thousand
pounds and producing a yield a oceupied a considerable portion of
the REDWING schedule,
There were in fact five shots devoted to this program.
Four shots were made investigating che
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"clean" design of thermonuclear weapons,
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In ‘the "clean" weapon the major
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and
a reduction in fallout contamination would be achieved.
In addition Operation
REDWING incorporated development tests of devices and continued the research of
small devices suitable for use in air-to-air, surface-to-air, and surface-tc-
surface missiles.
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