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Ivy-Mike

Ivy-Mike - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:W. G. Van DornPublish date:2008-07-07Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:XlibrisISBN-13:9781425775391ISBN-10:142577539XUPC:9781425775391Book Category:HistorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.5807Product ID:SC9H2PJYSR
On Saturday, November 1, 1952, a momentous event in history took place in total secrecy - the United States detonated the world's first "Super Bomb" at Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands. A thermonuclear device, codenamed Mike, demonstrated the capability of producing a fusion reaction on earth, a process similar to that which powers the sun. This book is a riveting historical account of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's involvement in that test, because of uncertainty that Mike might blow a section of the atoll away, thus generating a dangerous tsunami. Three days later, a natural earthquake generated a large tsunami in the northwestern Pacific. The author conjectures whether it would have been deemed coincidental had the real tsunami occurred three days earlier.
Language:EnglishPublisher:XlibrisISBN-13:9781425775391ISBN-10:142577539XUPC:9781425775391Book Category:HistorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.5807Product ID:SC9H2PJYSR
Publisher: Xlibris

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W. G. Van Dorn

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