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English: Thermo-Nuclear (Hydrogen) device is set off in the South Pacific during Operation Ivy, photograph received 16 April 1954. Though no other information is on the original mount-card, this detonation is probably Operation Ivy test “Mike”, which occurred on 31 October 1952 at Elugelab (flora) Island in the Enewetak Atoll. The blast was 500 times the yield of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki during World War II. (3/27/2014).
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