Edward Teller interview on the Atomic Bomb

Edward Teller believed it was possible – using weapons sized the same as the earliest air deliverable weapons – to scale the yield up to to 1000 megatons or more – the push however to make the weapons smaller and still deliver multi-megaton yields is where the development program headed . . . Enjoy! TellerContinue reading “Edward Teller interview on the Atomic Bomb”

. . . and Little Lambs Eat Ivy – Operation Ivy : Mike Phase then King Phase

“The island of Elugelab is missing!” President Eisenhower heard this short report on the Mike shot in Operation Ivy from Gordon Dean, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Mike was the first full-fledged hydrogen bomb to be tested. The island where the device was detonated was vaporized. The hole Mike left was big enough toContinue reading “. . . and Little Lambs Eat Ivy – Operation Ivy : Mike Phase then King Phase”