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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
IIRC, during that time we were not talking about 1 or 2 tests a year. There were dozens of extremely high yield --100 megaton-- air bursts every year by both the Soviets and the US.
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Air bursts are relatively clean. The only practical purpose of an air burst is knocking a fleet of bombers, or an ATBM out of the air. At least that's what they told us when we were training as Repairman for Missile and Nuclear Warheads.
An airburst would have to be at relatively low altitude, such as the ones over Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be dirty. I think those were at something like 1,600 feet.