Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first full-scale test of a thermonuclear device, in which part of the explosive yield comes from nuclear fusion... 34 KB (3,539 words) - 19:27, 6 February 2024 |
Thermonuclear weapon (section Ivy Mike) dominant process that produces radioactive fission product fallout. Before Ivy Mike, the first U.S. test of a fusion weapon design, Operation Greenhouse in... 105 KB (12,398 words) - 10:11, 26 April 2024 |
Ivy Mike wet device, except with a different type of fusion fuel. SHRIMP used lithium deuteride (LiD), which is solid at room temperature; Ivy Mike used... 74 KB (9,041 words) - 11:40, 24 April 2024 |
On November 1, 1952, the Teller–Ulam configuration was tested in the "Ivy Mike" shot at an island in the Enewetak atoll, with a yield of 10.4 megatons... 58 KB (6,736 words) - 16:41, 9 April 2024 |
Ivy or ivy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ivy without qualifiers usually means plants in the genus Hedera in the family Araliaceae. Ivy or IVY may... 2 KB (337 words) - 04:19, 17 January 2024 |
Enewetak Atoll (section Operation Ivy) 1958. The first hydrogen bomb test, code-named Ivy Mike, occurred in late 1952 as part of Operation Ivy; it vaporized the islet of Elugelab. This test... 37 KB (3,765 words) - 17:18, 1 April 2024 |
a large 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... 3 KB (462 words) - 04:14, 11 June 2021 |
Argonne and Los Alamos National Laboratories, in the fallout from the Ivy Mike nuclear test. The test was carried out on November 1, 1952, at Enewetak... 68 KB (8,047 words) - 14:41, 29 April 2024 |
thermonuclear charge. However, as early as 30 October 1949, three years before the Ivy Mike test which utilized the Teller-Ulam design, in the Supplement to the official... 62 KB (7,242 words) - 22:42, 28 April 2024 |
of fusion and fission, yet it was still 26 times less powerful than the Ivy Mike bomb tested by the USA in 1952. A similar design was earlier theorized... 10 KB (1,199 words) - 08:32, 24 March 2024 |
Canadian cellular network Mike and Ike, a candies brand MIKE Force, a unit in the Vietnam War Ivy Mike, the first test of a full-scale thermonuclear weapon... 2 KB (256 words) - 05:11, 10 March 2024 |
fusion bomb, unlike the cryogenic liquid deuterium of the first-generation Ivy Mike fusion device. It differed from the Castle Romeo "Runt" device, tested... 4 KB (371 words) - 22:44, 21 March 2024 |
tested their first "hydrogen bomb", codenamed Ivy Mike. The design was based on the Teller–Ulam layout. Ivy Mike was not a usable weapon. It was massive in... 32 KB (4,674 words) - 06:30, 28 April 2024 |
reactor to bomb) in both the U.S. and U.S.S.R., for example. The 62-ton Ivy Mike device built by the United States and exploded on 1 November 1952, was... 71 KB (8,788 words) - 19:45, 25 April 2024 |
thermonuclear weapon technology test of an engineered device, codenamed Ivy Mike, was tested at the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 1... 64 KB (5,433 words) - 21:01, 18 March 2024 |
1951 in the Greenhouse Item test. The first true fusion weapon was 1952's Ivy Mike, and the first practical example was 1954's Castle Bravo. In these devices... 87 KB (9,571 words) - 21:24, 9 April 2024 |
many "Hiroshima bombs" other weapons are equivalent to (for example, the Ivy Mike hydrogen bomb was equivalent to either 867 or 578 Hiroshima weapons — a... 38 KB (3,619 words) - 07:02, 22 April 2024 |
"vaporization" of the uninhabited Marshall Island of Elugelab in the 1952 Ivy Mike thermonuclear test. Many other examples can be found throughout the various... 5 KB (601 words) - 10:18, 5 March 2024 |
a test of a TX-16/EC-16, a weaponized version of the large and complex Ivy Mike device. A small number of emergency capability EC-16s were produced, without... 5 KB (586 words) - 16:12, 11 April 2024 |