Talk:Operation Sunbeam

Yield
The german version of this page mentions much lower yield (20 tons instead of <20 kt). Could anyone correct the inaccurate data? --RMeier (talk) 07:55, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Also W54 gives it as 18t and 22t respectively, so it's definitely wrong here. --87.187.195.187 (talk) 21:56, 29 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Done. SkoreKeep (talk) 06:21, 26 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Well, almost done. I edited the infobox to indicate that all the yields except for Small Boy were in the tons range, but someone by the name of Subash.chandran007 reverted the change within seconds "because it didn’t appear constructive to me" (message sent to my talk page). While it is more wordy to explain what the yields were, reverting to "< 20 kT" when the largest was 1.65 kT and the rest in the tons range seems perverse. Sorry, I'm going to want a better reason than your feelings, Mr Chandran. SkoreKeep (talk) 02:46, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

Location
The location given at the top right of the page is incorrect. Three of the Sunbeam shots were in Area 18, and the largest on Doomtown in Area 5. The location given for the series is in Area 2; I thought it was maybe some "average" but that isn't even true, so I have no idea what the location given means. My locations for the shots are:

Little Feller II 37.11906,-116.30381

Johnny Boy       37.12216,-116.33395

Small Boy        36.798,-115.932

Little Feller I  37.11,-116.31 (probably rough) (no, corrected coordinates of LFI are 37.10946,-116.31823, not rough).

Added coordinates to the shot table. SkoreKeep (talk) 06:13, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

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