Operation Redwing

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United States military operation nuclear test series

Operation Redwing was a 1956 U.S. series of atmospheric nuclear tests in the Pacific Proving Grounds designed to evaluate advanced thermonuclear weapon designs and delivery systems.

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Label	Occurrences
Operation Redwing canonical	5

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States military operation ⓘ nuclear test series ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
endTime	1956-07-21 ⓘ
followedBy	Operation Plumbbob ⓘ
hasEffect	radioactive contamination of test sites ⓘ
location	Bikini Atoll ⓘ Enewetak Atoll ⓘ Pacific Proving Grounds ⓘ
maximumYield	approximately 15 megatons of TNT equivalent ⓘ
militaryBranchInvolved	United States Air Force ⓘ United States Army ⓘ United States Navy ⓘ
notableTest	Apache ⓘ Blackfoot ⓘ Cherokee ⓘ Dakota ⓘ Erie ⓘ Flathead ⓘ Huron ⓘ Inca ⓘ Kickapoo ⓘ Lacrosse ⓘ Mohawk ⓘ Navajo language ⓘ surface form: Navajo Osage Nation ⓘ surface form: Osage Redwing-Buffalo ⓘ Seminole ⓘ Tewa ⓘ Yuma ⓘ Zuni ⓘ
numberOfTests	17 ⓘ
operator	United States Atomic Energy Commission ⓘ Department of Defense ⓘ surface form: United States Department of Defense
partOf	Cold War nuclear testing ⓘ Pacific Proving Grounds nuclear testing program ⓘ
precededBy	Operation Wigwam ⓘ
purpose	evaluation of advanced thermonuclear weapon designs ⓘ evaluation of nuclear weapon delivery systems ⓘ
startTime	1956-05-05 ⓘ
subjectOf	declassified U.S. government reports ⓘ
temporalLocation	1956 ⓘ
testedCapability	strategic bomber delivery of thermonuclear weapons ⓘ weaponized hydrogen bomb designs ⓘ
testEnvironment	atmosphere ⓘ barge shot ⓘ surface burst ⓘ tower shot ⓘ
testType	atmospheric nuclear test ⓘ thermonuclear test ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Operation Redwing
Description of subject: Operation Redwing was a 1956 U.S. series of atmospheric nuclear tests in the Pacific Proving Grounds designed to evaluate advanced thermonuclear weapon designs and delivery systems.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Enewetak Atoll → testSeriesConducted → Operation Redwing ⓘ

United States nuclear weapons testing → hasPart → Operation Redwing ⓘ

Runit Dome → associatedWith → Operation Redwing ⓘ

Pacific Proving Grounds → notableEvent → Operation Redwing ⓘ

Operation Plumbbob → precededBy → Operation Redwing ⓘ