( see also Operation Blossom, Broomstick Scientists, Hermes project, Operations Sandy and Pushover )

Johns responded that numerous Clinton administration officials, including Vice President Al Gore and National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, cited nearly identical intelligence conclusions regarding Saddam's possession of weapons of mass destruction in justifying Clinton's four-day 1998 bombing of Iraq, known as " Operation Desert Fox.

* SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty ( 2001 ) ( VG ) — Sandy Cheeks

Destroyer USS Agerholm | USS Agerholm fires an ASROC with a nuclear depth bomb in the " Operation Dominic I and II | Swordfish " test in 1962

To speed the trials at Woomera, the test rounds were flown there by Victors and Vulcans in Operation Blue Ranger.

* 1955 – Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot " Wasp " is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1. 2 kilotons.

In May 1985, the vessel was instrumental for ' Operation Exodus ', the evacuation of about 300 Rongelap Atoll islanders whose home had been contaminated with nuclear fallout from a US nuclear test two decades ago which had never been cleaned up and was still having severe health effects on the locals.

There were also several nuclear test missiles that were launched from Johnston Island in 1962 during the " Operation Dominic " series of nuclear tests, from a launchpad at.

* 1962 – As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.

* 1957 – Operation Grapple X, Round C1: Britain conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.

* 1957 – First American underground nuclear bomb test ( part of Operation Plumbbob ).

Operation Shakti was carried out two months after the 1998 elections at the Pokhran test site, and used devices designed and built over the preceding two decades.

Two test launches were recovered by the Allies: the Bäckebo rocket which landed in Sweden on 13 June 1944 and one recovered by the Polish resistance on 30 May 1944 from Blizna and transported to the UK during Operation Most III.

Operation Castle became the highest-yield nuclear test series ever conducted by the United States.

This test is code-named Project Milrow, the 11th test of the Operation Mandrel 1969 – 1970 underground nuclear test series.

** Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, when the United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.

** Operation Julin is the last nuclear test conducted by the United States at the Nevada Test Site.

* March 17 – The first nuclear test of Operation Upshot-Knothole is conducted in Nevada, with 1, 620 spectators at.

Starfish Prime was the first successful test in the series of United States high-altitude nuclear tests in 1962 known as Operation Fishbowl.

The " first test of battle " for SAMS graduates came in December 1989 during Operation Just Cause in Panama.

Although the school's reputation was growing, its biggest test was still ahead — Operation Desert Shield / Desert Storm.

In August 1942 Anglo-Canadian forces attempted an abortive landing — Operation Jubilee — at the French port of Dieppe ; the landing was designed to test the feasibility of a cross-channel invasion.

* Mohawk, the name of a 1956 Operation Redwing nuclear test

First successful British Teller – Ulam design | H-bomb test – Operation Grapple X Round C1, which took place over Kiritimati

For the 1958 US nuclear test, see Operation Hardtack I.

The Operation Antler / Round 1 test by the British at the Tadje site in the Maralinga range in Australia on 14 September 1957 tested a bomb using cobalt pellets as a radiochemical tracer for estimating yield.

* 1971 – The Troubles: The British security forces in Northern Ireland launch Operation Demetrius.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.

* 1944 – World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.

* 1967 – Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch " Operation Deckhouse Five " in the Mekong River delta.

A V-2 missile launch by the United Kingdom | British during Operation Backfire ( WWII ) | Operation Backfire

* 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.

* 1952 – Korean War: United Nations and South Korean forces launch Operation Showdown against Chinese strongholds at the Iron Triangle.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Sealords – United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.

** British forces launch Operation Goodwood, an armoured offensive aimed at driving the Germans from the high ground to the south of Caen.

* November 19 – WWII: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counter-attacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.

* October 8 – Vietnam War – Operation Sealords: United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta.

** Croatian forces launch Operation Flash against rebel Serb forces in western Slavonia.

* August 4 – Croatian forces launch Operation Storm against Serbian forces in Krajina, with the cooperation of the ARBiH, and force them to withdraw to central Bosnia and Herzegovina.

* January 6 – Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch Operation Deckhouse Five in the Mekong River Delta.

* September 4 – Vietnam War – Operation Swift: The United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces.

The Ersatzheer had a unique opportunity to launch a coup, as one of its functions was to have Operation Valkyrie in place.

After the 7 October 2001 launch of Operation Enduring Freedom, the United Front ( Northern Alliance ) worked with teams of U. S. special forces.

De Gaulle was approved by the French parliament on May 29, by 329 votes against 224, 15 hours before the projected launch of Operation Resurrection.

Although Montgomery was not permitted to launch an offensive on the scale he had wanted, George Marshall and Hap Arnold were eager to use the First Allied Airborne Army to cross the Rhine, so Eisenhower agreed to Operation Market-Garden.

With the launch of Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941, 6. Panzer took part in Army Group North's strike towards Leningrad, being involved in heavy fighting.

* A day afer a deadline was passed set in Resolution 678, Coalition forces launch Operation Desert Storm with a massive air campaign against targets in Iraq and Kuwait.

In 1941, Sorge is said to have informed them of the exact launch date of Operation Barbarossa.

Gordon Prange's analysis ( 1984 ) was that the closest Sorge came to predicting the launch date of Operation Barbarossa was 20 June 1941 and Prange comments that Sorge himself never claimed to have discovered the correct date ( 22 June ) in advance.