Keywords: June 8, 1958
Mut Island, Enewetak Atoll
Yield: 8 kt
The device was detonated on the lagoon bottom at 46 m.
The water column reached a height of over 1.5 km.
The Umbrella blast created a crater 900 m in diameter and 6 m in depth in the lagoon.
(Credit: U.S. Army Task Group) |