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          Operation Ivy

          Series of 1950s US nuclear tests

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          Operation Ivy

          Operation Ivy test detonations of Mike (top) and King (bottom), sped up

          CountryUnited States
          Test site
          • Elugelab (Flora), Enewetak Atoll
          • Runit (Yvonne), Enewetak Atoll
          Period1952
          Number of tests2
          Test typedry surface, free air drop
          Max. yield10.4 megatonnes of TNT (44 PJ)

          Operation Ivy was the eighth series of Americannuclear tests, coming after Tumbler-Snapper and before Upshot–Knothole.

          The two explosions were staged in late 1952 at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Proving Ground in the Marshall Islands.

          Background

          The Operation Ivy test series was the first to involve a hydrogen bomb rather than an atomic bomb, further to the order of President Harry S.

          Truman made on January 31, 1950, that the US should continue research into all forms of nuclear weapons. The bombs were prepared by the US Atomi