Operation Guardian

History records two military operations named Operation Guardian:

1. The 1948 British-backed attempt to spark an anti-Communist civil war in Yugoslavia. Although thousands of Croats had been trained in Italy and Germany for the task, the shadow army melted away after returning to Yugoslavia.

2. A series of sixteen nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site. this test series followed TINDERBOX and preceded PRAETORIAN. The individual shots of GUARDIAN were:

Name	Date	Size
DUCHESS	24 October 80	<20 kilotons
MINERS IRON	31 October	<20 kilotons
DAUPHIN	14 November	<20 kilotons
SERPA	17 December	20-150 kilotons
BASEBALL	15 January 81	20-150 kilotons
CLAIRETTE	5 February	<20 kilotons
SECO	25 February	<20 kilotons
VIDE	30 April	<20 kilotons
ALIGOTE	29 May	<20 kilotons
HARZER	6 June	20-150 kilotons
NIZA	10 July	<20 kilotons
PINEAU	16 July	<20 kilotons
HAVARTI	5 August	<20 kilotons
ISLAY	27 August	<20 kilotons
TREBIANO	4 September	<20 kilotons
CERNADA	24 September	<20 kilotons Fact-index.com financially supports the Wikimedia Foundation. Displaying this page does not burden Wikipedia hardware resources. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.