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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 ...
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.
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.
Ivy Mike: 10,400 United States: First "staged" thermonuclear weapon, with cryogenic fusion fuel, primarily a test device and not weaponized. November 16, 1952: Ivy King: 500 United States: Largest pure-fission weapon ever tested. August 12, 1953 RDS-6s: 400 Soviet Union: First fusion-weapon test by the Soviet Union (not "staged").
English: High-speed camera film of the expanding fireball of the Ivy Mike thermonuclear weapon test at Elugelab island in the Pacific. "The island of Elugelab is missing!" President Eisenhower heard this short report on the Mike (yield 10.4 Mt) shot in Operation Ivy from Gordon Dean, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.
The 1954 test shot Nectar of Operation Castle produced a yield of 1.69 megatons and was detonated just North East of Ivy Mike's Elugelab crater, off the coast of Teiter (Gene) Island. The Island of Bogon/Bokon (Irene), is the spearhead-shaped object at the bottom right of the screen.
The Mark 16 nuclear bomb was a large American thermonuclear bomb (hydrogen bomb), based on the design of the Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device ever test fired.The Mark 16 is more properly designated TX-16/EC-16 as it only existed in Experimental/Emergency Capability (EC) versions.
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