antarmike Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 (edited) A Vickers Valiant of of 49 Sqadron dropped the first British Nuclear bomb (or air-dropped weapon) (KITE) during operation Buffalo over the Maralinga ranges of South Australia. Edited October 11, 2008 by antarmike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted October 11, 2008 Author Share Posted October 11, 2008 (edited) kite was the codename for a 2.9 Kiloton bomb released at 35,000 feet. It was the third (and only air-dropped weapon) of four weapons exploded at Maralinga under the Operational Buffalo trials. In 2001, Dr Sue Rabbit Roff, a researcher from the University of Dundee, uncovered documentary evidence that troops had been ordered to run, walk and crawl across areas contaminated by the Buffalo tests in the days immediately following the detonations; a fact that the British government at first denied but then later admitted. Dr Roff stated that "it puts the lie to the British government's claim that they never used humans for guinea pig-type experiments in nuclear weapons trials in Australia." Edited October 11, 2008 by antarmike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted October 11, 2008 Author Share Posted October 11, 2008 http://www.australianscreen.com.au/titles/operation-buffalo/clip2/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 They describe it as an airburst. If so, it is an extremely LOW airburst. Maybe, just maybe, none of the fireball touched the ground. If it did, it ought to be described as a surface burst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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