Operation Storax was a series of 47

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 by the United States in 1962–1963 at the

Nevada Test Site The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion of Nye County, Nevada, about northwest of ...

. These tests followed the ''

Operation Fishbowl Operation Fishbowl was a series of high-altitude nuclear explosion, high-altitude nuclear tests in 1962 that were carried out by the United States as a part of the larger Operation Dominic I and II, Operation Dominic nuclear test program. In ...

'' series and preceded the '' Operation Roller Coaster'' series.

British tests

Some accounts include the second British nuclear weapons test at the Nevada Test Site, shot ''Tendrac'', as part of Storax. See British nuclear testing in the United States for more details.

Tests

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