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Minor Scale
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<p>Minor Scale was a test conducted on June 27, 1985, by the <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a> <a href="/facts/Defense_Nuclear_Agency/DreNRP3e">Defense Nuclear Agency</a> (now part of the <a href="/facts/Defense_Threat_Reduction_Agency/DreNRP3e">Defense Threat Reduction Agency</a>) involving the detonation of several thousand tons of conventional <a href="/facts/Explosives/sUme5Pp8">explosives</a> to simulate the explosion of a small <a href="/facts/Nuclear_bomb/QVdBcMdm">nuclear bomb</a>. </p>