Today in 1957, 66 years ago: in the U12c.02 area of the Nevada Atomic Test Site, at 0:59 (UTC time) -at 16:59 (local time) on August 9 - the United States detonates its 0.00005 kiloton Saturn atomic bomb. It is the 102nd of 1132 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.

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