Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom weapons to be a joint discovery, but the American Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (McMahon Act) restricted other countries, including the UK, from access to information about nuclear weapons. Fearing the loss of Britain's great power status, the UK resumed its own project, now codenamed High Explosive Research. On 3 October 1952, it detonated an atomic bomb in the Monte Bello Islands of Western Australia in Operation Hurricane. Eleven more British nuclear weapons tests in Australia were carried out over the following decade, including seven British nuclear tests at Maralinga in 1956 and 1957. The British hydrogen bomb programme demonstrated
Operation Crusader (video game) will [also] be publishing a "second" game from Atomic" centered on the North African Campaign. He speculated that this was "what would be the next "V for Victory" game in an Avalon Hill wrapper". By January 1994, Atomic Games had revealed the "World at War" series as the successor to its "V for Victory" line under Avalon, and its first entry was entitled "Operation Crusader". Alongside "Kingmaker", "Operation Crusader" was one of the first two titles released as part of Avalon Hill's new initiative. The computer game division had previously been known for low-quality titles, a problem that Avalon Hill's