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 | Unavailable |
| 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. |
| Note | Unavailable |