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The mushroom cloud from the Ivy Mike nuclear test, one of two tests conducted as part of Operation Ivy at the Pacific Proving Grounds on Elugelab in the Marshall Islands.Mike was the first successful full-scale test of a multi-megaton thermonuclear weapon, and it left an underwater crater 6,240 ft (1,900 m) wide and 164 ft (50 m) deep where the island had been.
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 .
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 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.
Ivy King was the largest pure-fission nuclear bomb ever tested by the United States. [1] The bomb was tested during the Truman administration as part of Operation Ivy.This series of tests involved the development of very powerful nuclear weapons in response to the nuclear weapons program of the Soviet Union.
Laura Jane Grace has tried for years to get an Operation Ivy set to happen at Riot Fest. Eventually, she took matters into her own hands when the venerable Chicago festival asked her to perform an ...
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 ...
New projects were consistent, with films such as the influential "Operation Ivy" (1954) on the 1952 test and 42 additional film projects in 1954. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] In 1956, Lookout Mountain official reports described the 1352nd Squadron working again with missiles in collaboration with the Western Development Division of the Air Force's Air ...