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Operation Ivy was the eighth series of American nuclear tests, coming after Tumbler-Snapper and before Upshot–Knothole. The two explosions were staged in late 1952 at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Proving Ground in the Marshall Islands .
Several operations are described in the book, such as the use of USS Parche to tap Soviet undersea communications cables and USS Halibut to do the same in Operation Ivy Bells. [1] The book also contains an extensive list of collisions between Western and Soviet submarines and U.S. submarine awards.
After the Ivy Mike shot, only a large crater (at left) remained of the island of Elugelab. Two weapons were detonated at the Enewetak Atoll as part of Operation Ivy in 1952. One of them, Ivy King , was the largest pure-fission bomb ever detonated, with a yield of 500 kilotons , [ 12 ] and the other, Ivy Mike , was the first hydrogen bomb device ...
It’s not quite the full Operation Ivy reunion for which fans have been clamoring since 1989, but that group’s Tim Armstrong and Jesse Michaels have re-teamed in the new group Bad Optix, which ...
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Plea for Peace is the final EP by the American punk rock band Operation Ivy.It was released in February 1992, three years after they disbanded, through M&E Records. Plea for Peace contained four songs not featured on any of Operation Ivy's studio releases.
Operation Ivy Bells was a 1971 joint United States Navy, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and National Security Agency (NSA) mission whose objective was to place wire taps on Soviet underwater communication lines during the Cold War.
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.