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RE: Ivy Mike

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On Nov. 1, 1952, the United States conducted its first nuclear test of a fusion device, or "hydrogen bomb," at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. News of the event surfaced more than two weeks later, when The New York Times reported : "The Atomic Energy Commission announced tonight 'satisfactory' experiments in hydrogen weapon research ... In a three-paragraph announcement, the Commission did not go so far as to state that a full-scale hydrogen bomb had been detonated, but it did say 'experiments contributing' to hydrogen bomb research had been completed."
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Blobrana · L

Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first United States nuclear test of a fusion device, in which a major part of the explosive yield came from nuclear fusion. It was detonated on November 1, 1952 by the United States at 11.6709°N 162.1980°E on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, as part of Operation Ivy.
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