[dboreham]

Fair point. Perhaps also worth noting that an "end-to-end" test has been performed by the US exactly once.

[tpmx]

(Twice.)

I find it somewhat incredible from a pure engineering point of view that Trinity worked in the first test and that both Little Boy (Test #2) and Fat Man (Test #3) also worked.

[m3047]

I think that's explained by "are you scared? good. do it scared."

[andbberger]

which test was that

[perihelions]

Dominic / Frigate Bird in 1962.

"Frigate Bird was the only US test of an operational ballistic missile with a live warhead."

https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Dominic.html#Frig...