Operation Quicksilver
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Operation Quicksilver may refer to:
- Operation Quicksilver (WWII)Operation Quicksilver (WWII)In World War II, Operation Quicksilver was a sub-plan of Operation Fortitude, the 1944 deception plan designed to induce the Germans to hold troops away from Normandy in belief that the Normandy landing was only a feint and that the major invasion would come in the Pas-de-Calais...
, a World War II plan by the Allies that was a sub-plan of Operation Fortitude - Operation Quicksilver (1978)Operation Quicksilver (1978)Operation Quicksilver was a nuclear test series of eighteen blasts conducted at the Nevada Test Site in 1978 and 1979. This preceded Tinderbox, and followed Cresset. The individual tests were:...
, an American nuclear test series of eighteen blasts conducted at the Nevada Test Site in 1978 and 1979 - Operation Quicksilver (1990s), a plan to reduce the size of the United States Army in the early 1990s as a result of the end of the Cold War