Operation Totem status, the British government restarted its own development effort, which was given the cover name "High Explosive Research". The first British atomic bomb was tested in Operation Hurricane at the Montebello Islands in Western Australia on 3 October 1952. The main purpose of the trial was to determine the acceptable limit on the amount of plutonium-240 which could be present in a bomb. The plutonium used in the original Hurricane device was produced in the nuclear reactor at Windscale, but the Windscale Piles did not have anything like the capacity to provide sufficient material for the British government's planned weapons
Atomic: The Very Best of Blondie as a limited edition 2-CD set titled "Atomic/Atomix: The Very Best of Blondie", including a second disc of previously available remixes with the exception of another new remix of the title track. In 2011, the compilation was reissued again as a single disc with identical track listing, but with the title being changed to "Essential", which was certified Gold in September 2018. Atomic: The Very Best of Blondie Atomic: The Very Best of Blondie is a compilation album of recordings by the band Blondie released by EMI/Chrysalis Records in the UK and the rest of Europe in late 1998, at