Ivy-Mike
Ivy-Mike
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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.| SKU | Non disponible |
| ISBN 13 | 9781425775391 |
| ISBN 10 | 142577539X |
| Titre | Ivy-Mike |
| Auteur | W G Van Dorn |
| État | Non disponible |
| Type de reliure | Hardback |
| Éditeur | Xlibris |
| Année de publication | 2008-07-07 |
| Nombre de pages | 384 |
| Note de couverture | La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier. |
| Note | Non disponible |