Word: elugelab
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...equivalent) explosions that had been set off-by the Russians and by the Americans. It learned that the force and horror of atomic weapons had entered a new dimension. It saw by television that the first full-dress H-blast (Operation Ivy) had turned the mid-Pacific sandspit named Elugelab into a submarine crater. While the shock and the prayer that Dr. Thirring had felt were both present in the communication of the news, the U.S. was given-and received-the information as calmly as it might hear of any other scientific discovery...
...bomb. Teller adapted Ulam's design, using the energy of the A-bomb's radiation rather than the force of its shock waves to achieve the necessary compression. It was a bomb of this design, code named Mike, that exploded on Nov. 1, 1952, on the Pacific island of Elugelab. The island, one mile in diameter, disappeared...
...loom large in the memories of the weary scientists, including Ogle, who sweated them out. There was Ranger at Frenchman Flat near Las Vegas, Greenhouse at Eniwetok, Buster-Jangle and Tumbler-Snapper. With Ivy in November 1952, the first hydrogen bomb was exploded, wiping out the tiny island of Elugelab, and digging a crater a mile long and 175 ft. deep in the ocean's floor, near Eniwetok. During Castle, near Bikini in the spring of 1954, miscalculations on power and meteorology caused radioactive ash to fall and injure 23 Japanese tuna fishermen-one fatally-on their trawler, Lucky...
November 1952: Mike, a cumbersome hydrogen device, was exploded at Elugelab Island in the Pacific...
...Government is gradually releasing. Three weeks ago, the press published some Statistics about the blast, along with black and white photographs. Some still Cuts from color motion pictures followed. On the next four pages, TIME publishes the first color pictures taken with a still camera of the explosion at Elugelab...