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...and what were the Aldermaston marches all about?

Orange Herald was detonated during the Grapple series on 31 May 1957
Grapple X was our first Thermonuclear device, detonated five months later on 08 November 1957, giving a yield of 1.8 Megatons. Some bluff!

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