The United States's Sculpin nuclear test series was a group of 7

nuclear test Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Nuclear testing is a sensitive political issue. Governments have often performed tests to signal strength. Bec ...

s conducted between October 1990 and September 1991. These testsA bomb test may be a salvo test, defined as two or more explosions "where a period of time between successive individual explosions does not exceed 5 seconds and where the burial points of all explosive devices can be connected by segments of straight lines, each of them connecting two burial points and does not exceed 40 kilometers in length". followed the '' Operation Aqueduct'' series and preceded the ''

Operation Julin Operation Julin was a group of 7 nuclear tests conducted by the United States in 1991–1992. These testsA bomb test may be a salvo test, defined as two or more explosions "where a period of time between successive individual explosions does ...

'' series.

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Distant Zenith

Shot ''Distant Zenith'' included the experiment ''Hydroplus''. The

Defense Nuclear Agency The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is both a defense agency and a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense (DoD) for countering weapons of mass destruction (WMD; chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, a ...

(DNA) developed a means of verifying non-standard nuclear tests using ground peak stress and velocity at several ranges from a possible detonation point using computer hydrocodes. These codes required calibration data which was gathered at Distant Zenith. Further Hydroplus experiments were conducted in shot ''Hunters Trophy'' of

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