Image:OperationGrappleXmasIslandHbomb.jpg

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"The first British Hydrogen bomb is dropped near Christmas Island"
Source

http://www.raf.mod.uk/history_old/line1950-59.html
Date

15 May 1957

This is a common error based on 1957 disinformation. The May tests were not at Christmas (Kiritimati) but at Malden Island. They included 2 H-bomb prototypes which failed to function as intended, and 1 beefed-up N-bomb which was publicly sold as H-bomb.
The photo is of the first successful British H-bomb test (Operation Grapple X Round C1) which took place over Kiritibati on November 8, 1957. See en:Operation Grapple. Dysmorodrepanis 00:00, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Author

Royal Air Force
Permission
(Reusing this image)
Public domain This artistic work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain

This is because it is one of the following:

  1. It is a photograph created by the United Kingdom Government and taken prior to 1 June 1957; or
  2. It is a photograph or an engraving created by the United Kingdom Government and commercially published prior to 1958; or
  3. It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created by the United Kingdom Government prior to 1958.

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