Operation Quicksilver may refer to:
- Operation Quicksilver (WWII), a World War II plan by the Allies that was a sub-plan of Operation Fortitude
- Operation Quicksilver (1978), 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
Famous quotes containing the words operation and/or quicksilver:
“You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don’t have, at the back of your minds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“the quicksilver art
Throws back the invisible but lightning mass
To inhabit the room; for I have seen it part
The palpable air....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)