U.K. H-BOMB TEST
Fourth Of Series
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LONDON, September 23. Britain today successfully exploded a “low .yield nuclear device” suspended from a balloon at Christmas. Island, the British Ministry of Supply announced. Today’s explosion was Britain’s twenty-first nuclear test and the fourth in the current series, which she ha£ undertaken to complete “as soon as possible.” A Ministry statement said: “The Minister of Supply (Mr Aubrey Jones) has received a report from Air Vice-Marshal John Grandy, commander of the Joint Services Task Force based on Christmas Island, that an explosion of a low yield nuclear device suspended ■from a balloon was successfully carried out at Christmas Island today.” The current series began on August 22 with the explosion of a low-yield device from a balloon.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28700, 25 September 1958, Page 11
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