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What weapon was first used in 1952?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The first true fusion bomb was tested: Ivy Mike on the island of Eugelab in Eniwetok atoll (after the test Eugelab no longer existed). However Mike wasn't exactly a weapon, being 20 feet in diameter and 80 feet tall with 2 foot thick steel walls. It contained a triple nested thermos bottle containing a mixture of liquid deuterium/tritium and required a large cryogenic plant to keep liquid hydrogen circulating through the outer thermos to keep the deuterium/tritium liquid. Yield was 10 megatons. No bomber could have lifted Mike. Some in the military thought fusion bombs could only be used as weapons by having large ships deliver them to enemy harbors and hope the ship isn't sunk before getting there.

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14y ago

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