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| One of three underground nuclear tests performed at different places on this 43-mile long island in the Aleutian Chain. This 1969 test, named Milrow, consisted of an 1.2 megaton-yield bomb, detonated at the bottom of a 3,990-foot shaft. The test was part of a calibration program conducted to measure the island's responses to high-yield nuclear tests, in anticipation of another, larger test, code-named Cannikin. The island of Amchitka was a military outpost in WWII, and the air field and base camp from that facility were reused for the nuclear testing program. |
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| The site is in the southern half of the island, a few miles north west of the Main Camp airstrip and south of the site of project Long Shot, a previous nuclear test. |
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| 1,400 miles W of Anchorage, on Amchitka Island |
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| Aleutians West |
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| N51 25.2667 / E179 10.5630 |
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http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/media/publications/nucflash/island.htm
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