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Dec 31, 2014 · 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-scale hydrogen explosive device to be tested, yet was only a scientific test of a thermofusion implosion device concept.
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Operation Ivy: With Norris E. Bradbury, P.W. Clarkson, Alvin. C. Graves, Reed Hadley. A short produced by the US government about the development of the hydrogen bomb leading up to its testing and explosion over Bikini Atoll.
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Jun 6, 2010 · Courtesy: U.S. Department of Energy0800012 - Operation Ivy, Parts 1 and 2 - 1952 - 1:02:30 - Pacific, Color, Sanitized - "The island of Elugelab is missing!"...
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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.
Dec 31, 2014 · Nuclear Test Film - Operation Ivy 1952 DVD Copied by The Department of Energy, in cooperation with the Department of Defense, declassified a series of historical films on the nuclear weapons program. They were converted to videotape format to help preserve the films and to facilitate the declassification and release process.
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Televised in redacted form in 1954, Operation Ivy explained hydrogen nuclear energy and its national security importance to Americans and demonstrated its power with video documentation of the 1952 detonation of “Mike,” which was the first full-scale test of a hydrogen bomb.