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  2. Ivy Mike - Wikipedia

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    Edward Teller, perhaps the most ardent supporter of the development of the hydrogen bomb, was in Berkeley, California, at the time of the shot. [32] He was able to receive first notice that the test was successful by observing a seismometer, which picked up the shock wave that traveled through the earth from the Pacific Proving Grounds.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. Pacific Proving Grounds - Wikipedia

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    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 was too large to be an actual weapon), with a yield of 10.4 Mt.

  7. Charles Wyckoff - Wikipedia

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    Wyckoff's famous image of "Ivy Mike", the first hydrogen bomb detonation, appeared on the cover of Life magazine on April 19, 1954.Charles Wales Wyckoff (1916 – May 9, 1998) was an American photographic innovator, a photochemist specializing in high speed photography, also noted today for his innovations in the field of high dynamic range imaging.

  8. Defence secretary to seek 'missing' nuclear test records - AOL

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    Nuclear bomb test veterans relaunch legal action Survivors in their 80s say many of them and their children have suffered cancers, genetic defects and other illnesses that must be linked to ...

  9. 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.