At the height of the Cold War at 7:00 am on November 1, 1952, the
United States tested "Mike," the world's first hydrogen bomb, on the
Enewetak atoll off the Marshall Islands.
It was a bomb unlike any one had ever seen before. The 10.4-megatonne
bomb was 600 times more powerful than the atomic bombs that destroyed
Hiroshima and Nagasaki and ended the Japanese front of World War II in
August of 1945.
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iafrica news
NUCLEAR
Fifty years on: A
nuclear legacy
Posted
Wed, 30 Oct 2002
Twenty five thousand years from now a concrete dome on the
Pacific's Enewetak Atoll will be a lethal legacy of 20th Century mans
ultimate weapon of mass destruction - the thermonuclear bomb.
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photo shows the explosion of the
first hydrogen bomb and
Newspaper articles from 1952
A
DEFENSE Nuclear Agency photo shows the explosion of the
first hydrogen bomb at the Eniwetok Island Pacific Test Site in 1952.
Former Air Force weathermen who collected weather data for the test are
having a 50-year reunion in Las Vegas.