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Bookmark or Share- IVY-MIKE - OceanographyOn 1 November 1952 at 0714:59.4, MIKE was detonated on the surface of Eluklab Island in the Pacific Proving Ground at Enewetak Atoll. This was the first thermonuclear explosion ever, and yielded 10.4 megatons. Eluklab was evaporated, leaving a crater 200 feet deep and 1 mile in diameter.
- IVY – MIKEIVY-MIKE (for Mega) was the first thermonuclear explosion, ever, with an expected yield of 5 to 10 MT. (The actual yield turned out to be 10.4 MT, equivalent to a whopping magnitude 6.7 earthquake, three magnitudes above Bikini.) The explosion was to be at the surface of Eluklab Island of Enewetok Atoll (figure 3).
- Ivy Mike - WikipediaIvy 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.
- The First Hydrogen Bomb | SmithsonianThe Ivy Mike test, November 1, 1952. "Mike" stood for "megaton." Had you opened your morning paper 65 years ago today, looking for news of one of the most dramatic events in history—the first...
- Operation Ivy - Nuclear Weapon ArchiveThis series - Operation Ivy - exploded the two largest bombs tested up to that time. It inaugurated the thermonuclear age with the first "true" thermonuclear test (code name Mike), which was considerably more powerful than all the high explosives used in two World Wars put together.
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