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    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...
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    production of Ivy King was hurried to be ready in case its sister project, Ivy Mike, failed in its attempt to achieve a thermonuclear reaction. The Ivy King test...
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    dominant process that produces radioactive fission product fallout. Before Ivy Mike, the first U.S. test of a fusion weapon design, Operation Greenhouse in...
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    Elugelab. The Ivy Mike test was the world's first "hydrogen bomb", producing a full-scale thermonuclear or fusion explosion. The Ivy Mike device used liquid...
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    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...
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    bomb test on 1 November 1952, a test which was codenamed shot "Mike" of Operation Ivy. Prior to being destroyed, the island was described as "just another...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    fusion bomb, unlike the cryogenic liquid deuterium of the first-generation Ivy Mike fusion device. It differed from the Castle Romeo "Runt" device, tested...
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    States tested and developed the first hydrogen bomb: the Ivy Mike H-bomb test. The 1952 U.S. Ivy Mike test used cryogenically cooled liquid deuterium as the...
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    being detonated remotely from the control ship Estes. The first Ivy shot, codenamed Mike, was the first successful full-scale test of a multi-megaton thermonuclear...
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  • 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...
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    fusion bomb, unlike the cryogenic liquid deuterium of the first-generation Ivy Mike fusion device. Similar to the Shrimp TX-21 device tested before in the...
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    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...
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    thermonuclear weapon technology test of an engineered device, codenamed Ivy Mike, was tested at the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 1...
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    scientific research. Fermium was first discovered in the fallout from the 'Ivy Mike' nuclear test (1 November 1952), the first successful test of a hydrogen...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    plutonium implosion design. The United States' first thermonuclear weapon, Ivy Mike, was detonated on 1 November 1952 at Enewetak Atoll and yielded 10 Megatons...
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    Herald. July 2, 1980. p. 49. Retrieved July 30, 2023 – via Newspapers.com. "Mike Ivie, Drafted No. 1, Eager to Sign With Padres". The Sentinel. Winston-Salem...
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  • "vaporization" of the uninhabited Marshall Island of Elugelab in the 1952 Ivy Mike thermonuclear test. Many other examples can be found throughout the various...
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    which had been created largely through his urging. After the detonation of Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the Teller–Ulam configuration...
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    November 1, 1952, on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Code-named "Ivy Mike", the project was led by Edward Teller, a Hungarian-American nuclear physicist...
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    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...
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