Operation Grapple

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dbo:description	British nuclear weapons tests of very-early hydrogen bombs (en) Ison-Britannian asevoimien ydinkoesarja (fi)
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dbp:caption	Grapple X test in November 1957. Britain's first fully successful hydrogen bomb test (en)
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