Today in 1965, 58 years ago: at the Nevada nuclear test site, at 5:04:24 local time, the United States detonates its Izzer atomic bomb (which is part of the Flintlock project), of less than 20 kilotons. It is the 424th bomb of the 1,129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.

#OnThisDay