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Julin Bristol

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Country
  
United Kingdom

Test site
  
Nevada Test Site

Test type
  
Underground

Test series
  
Operation Julin

Date
  
November 26, 1991

Yield
  
< 20 kt

Julin Bristol is the codename given to a nuclear weapon test conducted at the Nevada Test Site on 26 November 1991. Conducted as part of Operation Julin, the final series of US nuclear tests, it was the last test explosion of a British nuclear weapon. Both the US and UK, as signatories of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, ceased nuclear testing after Operation Julin.

With a yield of less than 20 kilotons, it may have been a proof test of some aspect of the British-designed warheads fitted to the submarine Trident missiles in the British arsenal, possibly of a low yield mode.

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Julin Bristol Wikipedia