Ivy-Mike by W G Van Dorn

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Ivy-Mike by W G Van Dorn

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Ivy-Mike by W G Van Dorn

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.

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ISBN 13 9781425775391
ISBN 10 142577539X
Title Ivy-Mike
Author W G Van Dorn
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Xlibris
Year published 2008-07-07
Number of pages 384
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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