Operation Typhoon (Englean Kaiserreich)

Operation Typhoon
Information
Country	Englean Kaiserreich
Test site	Nukagawa Bay, Nulai Atoll, Nukagawa Archipelago
Date	16 June 1952
Number of tests	1
Test type	barge
Max. yield	27 kilotonnes of TNT (110 TJ)
Test series chronology

Operation Typhoon (Unternehmen Taifun) was the test of the first atomic weapon of the Englean Kaiserreich, on 16 June 1952. The weapon was a plutonium implosion device, codenamed "Pazifik Gerät" (Pacific Device), designed in similarity with the weapons developed by Aznazia and Rhodevus during the Second Great War, and was detonated in the Nukagawa Archipelago.

The development of Englean nuclear weapons began in the 1940s, culminating with the knowledge of the Aznazian-Rhodeve Operation Flashpoint collected by the Abwehr. After the usage of these weapons by Rhodevus and Aznazia at the end of the Second Great War, the Englean project was revived and the Oberster Heeresleitung placed Generaloberst Wilhelm von Kleiz in charge of designing the weapon.

Acutely aware of the necessity to test these weapons, the Oberster Heeresleitung cooperated with the Kaiserliches Oberkommando der Marine to decide on a test site. It was eventually decided that the Nukagawa Archipelago, recently occupied by the Kaiserreich during the war, would be used. The test involved a small fleet of vessels collected from around the Kaiserreich's inventory, with this test involving one destroyer, one battleship, one light carrier, and five smaller patrol vessels. The weapon itself was placed inside a captured destroyer from the Empire of the Tao, and detonated in the centre of the fleet. This test would be succeeded by Operation Fire Lily (Unternehmen Feuerlilie) one year later, followed by the manufacturing of the first Englean nuclear weapon, the Type 1952 "Atomwaffe" in 1954.