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Crossroads Able, airdrop over Bikini atoll in summer 1946. This was an airburst effects test of a "stockpile" bomb. It was almost certainly a MK-4 (improved composite core implosion device in a much lighter and easier to assemble casing than the MK-3 Fatman).

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