English subtitles for clip: File:Operation Upshot test.ogv

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The Army's 280 mm gun.

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When this shot was added to the program, some additional effects tests

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were scheduled to observe results of the low burst height.

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(gun fires)

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Since no gun-type assembly had been detonated since the Hiroshima bomb,

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the weapons development scientists had on this shot their first

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opportunity to study the nucleonic behavior and fireball configuration

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of such a device.

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(shell explodes)

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Yield: 15 kilotons