Operation Redwing was a United States series of 17 nuclear test Testing detonations from May to July 1956 .

`` Redwing '' demonstrated Protest the first United States airdrop of a deliverable hydrogen bomb during test Testing `` Cherokee '' .

Because the yields for many tests at `` Operation Castle '' in 1954 were dramatically higher than predictions , `` Redwing '' was conducted Action using Using an `` energy budget '' : There were limits Limiting to the total amount of energy released , and the amount of fission yield was also strictly controlled Control .

Operation Military_operation Red Wings , informally referred to as the Battle of Abbas Ghar ( often incorrectly called Name_conferral `` Operation Redwing '' or `` Operation Red Wing '' ) , was a combined / joint Collaboration military operation during the War in Afghanistan in the Pech District of Afghanistan 's Kunar Province , on the slopes of a mountain named Name_conferral Sawtalo Sar , approximately west of Kunar 's provincial capital of Asadabad , in late June through mid-July 2005 .