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    Castle Romeo was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of U.S. nuclear tests. It was the first test of the TX-17 thermonuclear...
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    The Castle Romeo and Koon tests were complete by the time this revision was published. Castle-Union, 6.9-megatons. Castle-Yankee, 13.6-megatons Castle-Romeo...
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    of the first-generation Ivy Mike fusion device. It differed from the Castle Romeo "Runt" device, tested shortly before, in using highly enriched lithium...
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  • geometry to the RUNT and RUNT II devices later proof-fired in Castle Romeo and Castle Yankee respectively. On paper it was a scaled-down version of these...
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    "Romeo and Juliet: Act I" The opening act of Romeo and Juliet. See also: Acts II, III, IV, V Problems playing this file? See media help. Romeo and Juliet...
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    was replaced by the Runt II device (a TX-24/EC-24), developed from the Castle Romeo Runt device (a TX-17/EC-17). Externally identical, the principal difference...
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  • The Koon shot of Operation Castle was a test of a thermonuclear device designed at the University of California Radiation Laboratory (UCRL), now Lawrence...
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  • William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (often shortened to Romeo + Juliet) is a 1996 romantic crime film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann...
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    1953. The TX-17 and 24 were tested as the "Runt" (Castle Romeo shot) device during Operation Castle in 1954. After the successful tests, basic versions...
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    reportedly very similar to the Runt design tested in Castle Romeo, other than the enrichment level. Castle Yankee had a demonstrated yield of 13.5 megatons...
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