Word: elugelab
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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November 1952: Mike, a cumbersome hydrogen device, was exploded at Elugelab Island in the Pacific...
...observers on ships and planes 50 miles away watched an enormous deep-orange fireball blaze up in the distance. Then it rose to the stratosphere, trailed by a churning grey-brown pillar of water and the pulverized remains of the little sandspit of Elugelab. As the cloud cooled, it began to billow outward...
...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...