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, 1965.

It was part of the Project Flintlock series of 47 nuclear weapons tests, which occurred at various sites. Flintlock was administered under Vela Uniform, an element of Project Vela.

Other nuclear weapons tests at Amchitka include Cannikin, detonated on November 6, 1971.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against physical constants
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Cannikin (nonfiction)
• Project Vela (nonfiction) - element of Project Vela conducted jointly by the United States Department of Energy and the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Its purpose was to develop seismic methods for detecting underground nuclear testing, and it involved many experts from academia, the sponsoring military agencies and the Atomic Energy Commission.
• Vela Uniform (nonfiction) - project undertaken by the United States Department of Defense[1] to develop and implement methods to monitor compliance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty. This treaty banned the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, in outer space, and underwater, effectively meaning nuclear tests were only to be permitted underground.

External links

• Cannikin @ Wikipedia
• Vela Uniform @ Wikipedia
• Project Vela @ Wikipedia