The force of the explosion "inevitably" blew the maintenance hole into the sky, Robert Brownlee, an astrophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and lead scientist of the Pascal tests, told Business Insider before his death in 2018. Pascal-A was carried out July 26, 1957, when an atomic bomb detonated at the bottom of a 500-foot-deep (152 meters) hole, which was covered by a 4-inch-thick (10 centimeters) iron cover. The tests included 29 nuclear detonations, two of which, known as Pascal-A and Pascal-B, were carried out underground, to test if nuclear fallout could be contained. military carried out a series of nuclear tests in the Nevada desert in a project known as Operation Plumbbob. (Image credit: NNSA)Ä«etween May 28 and Oct. Nintendo is also working with Chinese gaming leader Tencent Holdings Ltd to launch its Switch device in the country.The testing site in Navada used during Operation Plumbbob. At Wednesday's event in Tokyo, Chinese partner NetEase Inc - which will launch a local version of mobile game Pokemon Quest - also said it aims to bring more Pokemon games to China. Pokemon's success comes as Nintendo expands the range of outlets for its popular characters, with Italian plumber Mario to feature at a Nintendo-themed land under construction at Osaka's Universal Studios Japan theme park. A sequel to the Detective Pokemon game for the Nintendo 3DS handheld console will be released for the Switch, the Pokemon Company said. The move features the yellow Pikachu character - often the face of Pokemon - as a Sherlock Holmes-like crime-buster, complete with deerstalker. Pokemon's global appeal is reflected in the success of movie "Pokemon Detective Pikachu", which has taken more than $120 million at box offices in North America. It will release two fully fledged Pokemon titles for the device in late 2019. Nintendo has been trying to attract casual fans of Pokemon Go to its hybrid Switch games device with two beginner-friendly "Pokemon Let's Go" titles, which have sold more than 10 million copies as at the end of March. The title could help entrench Pokemon's appeal beyond core gamers and tap into a growing market for health-tracking services. Pokemon Sleep will use data points like how long the user slept and when they awoke, to change gameplay - though the Pokemon Company did not elaborate on how gameplay would change. Since then, the game series has sold more than 340 million units worldwide. The first two Pokemon titles launched on the Nintendo Game Boy handheld console in 1996. Spanning products including videos games, movies and soft toys, Pokemon is a home-grown contender for a Disney-style pop culture empire. The Pokemon Company was set up with investment from gaming companies Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures. Augmented reality smartphone game "Pokemon Go", developed by San Francisco-based Niantic Inc, became a worldwide phenomenon after its launch in 2016 as players spilled out from living rooms onto the streets to hunt for Pokemon. At the same event, Kyoto-based Nintendo Co Ltd said it was developing a sleep-tracking successor to its Pokemon Go Plus device, which allows users to "catch" Pokemon without taking out their smartphones. "We want to turn sleep into entertainment," said Tsunekazu Ishihara, chief executive of the Pokemon Company, which helps manage the Pokemon franchise, at an event in Tokyo. By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's the Pokemon Company said on Wednesday it was developing "Pokemon Sleep", a mobile app that tracks players' sleep and uses the data for gameplay, with a release date set for next year.
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