Orange Herald

Orange Herald fireball and subsequent mushroom cloud, film reel captured from a trailing aircraft

Orange Herald was a British nuclear weapon, tested on 31 May 1957. At the time it was reported as an H-bomb, although in fact it was a large boosted fission weapon and remains to date, the largest fission device ever detonated.


© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search