Ivy Mike - Wikipedia
Beginning with the Teller–Ulam breakthrough in March 1951, there was steady progress made on the issues involved in a thermonuclear explosion and there were additional resources devoted to staging, and political pressure towards seeing, an actual test of a hydrogen bomb.
Operation Ivy - Wikipedia
The first Ivy shot, codenamed Mike, was the first successful full-scale test of a multi-megaton thermonuclear weapon ("hydrogen bomb") using the Teller-Ulam design. Unlike later thermonuclear weapons, Mike used deuterium as its fusion fuel, maintained as a liquid by an expensive and cumbersome cryogenic system.
Operation Ivy - Nuclear Weapon Archive
2001年1月1日 · This series - Operation Ivy - exploded the two largest bombs tested up to that time. It inaugurated the thermonuclear age with the first "true" thermonuclear test (code name Mike), which was considerably more powerful than all …
The Island is Missing! | Article | The United States Army
2010年10月28日 · OPERATION IVY consisted of two tests: Codename "Mike," on November 1, 1952, and Codename "King" on November 15. Mike was the first full-scale hydrogen explosive device to be tested. H-hour...
"Mike" Device is Tested - Atomic Archive
The MIKE Device. Its explosion yielded 10.4 megatons of energy-over 450 times the power of the bomb dropped onto Nagasaki-and obliterated Elugelab, leaving an underwater crater 6,240 ft. wide and 164 ft. deep where the island had once been.
November 1st, 1952: The First Large Hydrogen Bomb is Dropped …
On November 1, 1952, the United States took a major step in nuclear weapons development by successfully testing its first hydrogen bomb, codenamed Mike. This powerful bomb was detonated as part of Operation Ivy on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
The First Hydrogen Bomb | Smithsonian
2017年11月2日 · Sixty-five years later, there are no bombs in the U.S. nuclear arsenal with as big an explosive yield as the Ivy Mike device. And that makes the 65-year-old accounts of a 10-megaton blast all...
Nuclear Weapons History: Operation Ivy and First H-Bomb Test - TIME
2015年11月2日 · Operation Ivy was conducted on the Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It involved two test bombs, one (“Mike”) a fusion device and the other a “stockpile” fission device.
Ivy Mike: How to Wipe Out an Island
Ivy Mike was a hydrogen bomb that ushered the world into the thermonuclear age on November 1, 1952. Built under the Truman administration, Ivy Mike was - at its construction - the largest, heaviest and most powerful bomb in existence.
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IVY – MIKE
On 1 November 1952 at 0714:59.4 , MIKE was detonated on the surface of Eluklab Island in the Pacific Proving Ground at Enewetok Atoll. This was the first thermonuclear explosion ever, and yielded 10.4 megatons. Eluklab was evaporated, leaving …