Operation Ivy
Nuclear Testing Program on DVD
"The island of Elugelab is missing!"
Operation Ivy - The first Hydrogen Bomb test
Operation Ivy - 1952 - 1 hour 2 minutes - Pacific, Color - "The
island of Elugelab is missing!" President Eisenhower heard this short
report on the Mike shot in Operation Ivy from Gordon Dean, Chairman of
the Atomic Energy Commission. Mike was the first full-fledged hydrogen
bomb to be tested.
The island where the device was detonated was vaporized. The hole Mike
left was big enough to accommodate several pentagon-size buildings and
deep enough to hold the Empire State Building. Mike's yield was an incredible
10.4 megatons, signaling the expansion of the nuclear arsenal from fission
to fusion, the same process that occurs in the Sun.
The detonation of the Mike device was the climax of an intense debate
over what would be the nation's correct response to the startling news
in 1949 that the Soviet Union had detonated a nuclear weapon. Many wanted
the U.S. to develop the means to produce and field a large number of fission
bombs of varying yields which could be used for tactical purposes. Others
believed that the country should institute a crash program like the Manhattan
Project to develop a Super weapon based on the idea of forcing together
or fusing light atoms with a fissile device to produce enormous amounts
of energy.
After a bitter fight among scientific, government and military officials,
the President opted for a crash program to demonstrate the Super bomb,
now called a hydrogen or thermonuclear weapon. Many designs were evaluated
and rejected until the Mike proposal came along. This concept involved
the cooling of hydrogen fuel to a liquid form, near absolute zero, and
fusing the hydrogen nuclei into helium using the atomic bomb as a trigger.
The Mike device was a 22-foot-long, 5-foot-diameter cylinder housing
canisters of liquid hydrogen fuel. These canisters were surrounded by
the atomic trigger. The Mike shot occurred on October 31, 1952, and as
scientists watched from 40 miles away as the mushroom cloud rose into
the stratosphere, the second generation of nuclear weapons was born.
Mike was followed on November 15, 1952, by the King shot, the largest
fission device ever tested. It was an implosion bomb, but with an advanced
warhead that enabled it to produce 500 kilotons of power.
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