Operation Hurricane Operation Hurricane Operation Hurricane was the test of the first UK atomic device, on 3 October 1952. A plutonium implosion device was detonated in the lagoon in the Monte Bello Islands in Western Australia. With the success of Operation Hurricane, Britain became the third nuclear power after the United States and the Soviet Union. During the Second World War, Britain commenced a nuclear weapons project, known as Tube Alloys, but the 1943 Quebec Agreement merged it with the American Manhattan Project. Several key British scientists worked as part of the British contribution to the Manhattan Project, but after the war
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