Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)

Film still from a DOE film about Project Long Shot, part of the Amchitka testing program. The dirt is being displaced by an 80 kiloton nuclear test.

Long Shot (or Flintlock Long Shot) was a nuclear weapons test in Amchitka, Alaska on October 2, 1969.

It was part of the Project Flintlock series of 47 nuclear weapons tests, which occurred at various sites.

Cannikin was a later weapons test at Amchitka, detonated on November 6, 1971.

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Cannikin (nonfiction)

External links:

• Cannikin @ Wikipedia