Elugelab (or Elugelap) was an island part of Enewetak, an atoll in the Marshall Islands, before it was destroyed by the world's first test of the hydrogen bomb on 1 November 1952 as part of Operation Ivy. The blast yielded 10.4 megatons of explosive power, 750 times [1]more powerful than the explosion that leveled Hiroshima.[2]
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Coordinates: 11°40′0″N 162°11′13″E / 11.666667°N 162.18694°E
- ^ In Mortal Hands, A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age, by Stephanie Cooke, Bloomsbury, New York, 2009, p 103
- ^ "Soviets Stole Bomb Idea From U.S., Book Says". http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/science/30bomb.html?_r=1&8dpc. Retrieved 2008-12-29.
External links
- "Mike" Test from PBS
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