Ivy-Mike (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781425775391)

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.

Author: W. G. Van Dorn
ISBN-10: 142577539X
ISBN-13: 9781425775391
Publisher: Xlibris
Language: English
Published: 07/07/2008
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d