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  2. Ivy Mike - Wikipedia

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    Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first full-scale [note 1] test of a thermonuclear device, in which a significant fraction of the explosive yield comes from nuclear fusion. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Ivy Mike was detonated on November 1, 1952, by the United States on the island of Elugelab in Enewetak Atoll , in the now independent island nation ...

  3. List of United States nuclear weapons tests - Wikipedia

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    First tests at the Nevada Test Site. Operation originally named "Operation Faust". Greenhouse: 1951 4: 4: 4: 46 to 225 398: George shot was physics experiment relating to the hydrogen bomb; Item shot was first boosted fission weapon. Buster-Jangle: 1951 7: 7: 7: small to 31 72: The first series in which troop maneuvers (Desert Rock exercises ...

  4. List of nuclear weapons tests - Wikipedia

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    596 First test – October 16, 1964; Film is now available of 1966 tests here at time 09:00 [24] and another test later in this film. Test No. 6, First hydrogen bomb test – June 17, 1967; CHIC-16, 200 kt-1 Mt atmospheric test – June 17, 1974 [25] #21, Largest hydrogen bomb tested by China (4 megatons) - November 17, 1976

  5. Operation Ivy - Wikipedia

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    The Operation Ivy test series was the first to involve a hydrogen bomb rather than an atomic bomb, further to the order of President Harry S. Truman made on January 31, 1950, that the US should continue research into all forms of nuclear weapons.

  6. Nevada Test Site - Wikipedia

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    The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 [1] or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, [2] is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion of Nye County, Nevada, about 65 mi (105 km) northwest of the city of Las Vegas.

  7. History of the Teller–Ulam design - Wikipedia

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    Ivy Mike, the first full test of the Teller–Ulam design (a staged fusion bomb), with a yield of 10.4 megatons (November 1, 1952). The Teller–Ulam design is a technical concept behind modern thermonuclear weapons, also known as hydrogen bombs.

  8. Once twice a year, now just once, Trinity Site open house ...

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    800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. ... students of history will have one less chance to see the place where the first nuclear bomb test once lit up the sky, a pivotal ...

  9. Operation Plumbbob - Wikipedia

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    The operation consisted of 29 explosions, of which only two did not produce any nuclear yield.Twenty-one laboratories and government agencies were involved. While most Operation Plumbbob tests contributed to the development of warheads for intercontinental and intermediate range missiles, they also tested air defense and anti-submarine warheads with smaller yields.