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has gloss | eng: Upshot-Knothole Grable was a nuclear weapons test conducted by the United States as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole. Detonation of the associated nuclear weapon occurred shortly after its deployment at 8:30am PDT (1530 UTC) on May 25, 1953, in Area 5 of the Nevada Test Site. The codename Grable was chosen because the letter Grable is phonetic for, G, stands for "gun", since the warhead was a gun-type fission weapon. It was in the form of a shell, or artillery-fired atomic projectile (AFAP), the first of its kind. |
lexicalization | eng: Upshot-Knothole Grable |
instance of | (noun) a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction atomic weapon, nuclear weapon |
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has gloss | por: Grable foi um teste nuclear conduzido pelos Estados Unidos da América em 25 de maio de 1953 as 8:30 da manha, na área de testes nucleares de nevada, o codinome Grable foi escolhido por que a letra fonética de Grable, é o G, que significa arma, por que a ogiva era uma arma do tipo pistola de fissão, e foi a uma das duas unicas armas desse tipo ( a outra foi a Little Boy arma lançada contra a cidade japonesa de Hiroshima, o restante das armas nucleares foram todos do tipo de implosão). |
lexicalization | por: Grable |
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media:img | Uk-grable2.jpg |
media:img | Upshot-Knothole GRABLE.jpg |
media | Operation Upshot test.ogg |
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