Talk:Operation Dominic

Arkansas Test Picture
The photo for the Arkansas test has in its' caption "Notice the aircraft on fire" - Most likely, that is not a fire - that is smoke from the cartridge start that was used to start the B-57 Canberra shown in the picture. Joeylawn (talk) 01:31, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Reorganization
With the existence of a good "Operation Fishbowl" page, I'll be deleting them from the list on Dominic with a link to that page for those shots, in the next couple of weeks. There's a lot more text on them over there. SkoreKeep (talk) 07:02, 29 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Came up faster than I expected. Fishbowl is separate topic.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by SkoreKeep (talk • contribs) 07:03, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

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SkoreKeep (talk) 04:46, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

"Somewhat contrived"?!
In the comment section of 'Frigate bird', it says "if somewhat contrived". What exactly is that supposed to mean?--Cancun771 (talk) 17:04, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

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film released
Lawrence Livermore labs has released the film of this test. No doubt it is a government work that could be copied to Wikimedia Commons?104.163.144.60 (talk) 03:51, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

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Largest Nuclear Weapons Testing Program Claim
For the claim that Operation Dominic was "the largest nuclear weapons testing program ever conducted by the United States" needing a citation, I crossed checked the yields totals of multiple tests using a script to retrieve the total, and crossed checked it with this site as well, and Operation Dominic appears to have a total of 38099.60 kt used, which is significantly higher than any other test conducted before, and also the last series of tests conducted.

Probably one of the sources cited on the page below references this as the largest ever if an explicit source is required, however, I haven't double checked them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.71.220.106 (talk) 00:51, 16 February 2024 (UTC)