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Operation Mosaic
- ... that the second test in the Operation Mosaic series (pictured) was of the largest nuclear device ever detonated in Australia? Source: "Mosaic G2, also tower mounted was exploded on Alpha Island at 1014 WAST on 19 June 1956. It produced a yield of 60 kt, making it the largest device exploded by the UK in Australia." (The Report of the Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia, Volume 1, p. 233)
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- Comment: No country has ever exploded atomic bombs in Australia except the UK
5x expanded by Hawkeye7 (talk). Self-nominated at 20:04, 9 August 2018 (UTC).