Once the army dropped a 5 megaton bomb on an American state.
Summary and Key Details: The five-megaton Kannikin explosion, the United States’ largest underground nuclear test, took place on November 6, 1971, on Amchitka Island, Alaska. A warhead was being tested for the Spartan anti-ballistic missile system. -President Nixon overruled political and environmental concerns and ordered the test; This resulted in local seismic activity but met … Read more