A sample of fused sand created from the nuclear tests on Christmas Island, Royal Engineers Museum in Gillingham, Kent, UK.
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Gillingham, Kent, UKMore information:
"Operation Grapple was a set of four series of British nuclear weapons tests of early atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs carried out in 1957 and 1958 at Malden Island and Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands in the Pacific Ocean (modern Kiribati) as part of the British hydrogen bomb programme." Wikipedia info
