"Operation IVY 1952" Topic
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| T Callahan | 13 Sep 2009 7:09 p.m. PST |
"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. link Interesting film from the 50's on the first thermonuclear explosion. Terry |
| Tom Bryant | 13 Sep 2009 8:22 p.m. PST |
There's a company called US Fighter Squadrons that had the one hour version of this film for sale in their retrospective of nuclear test films. Well worth looking into. |
| Tom Bryant | 13 Sep 2009 8:30 p.m. PST |
Ok, I just pulled up the link. This looks like the same film I just mentioned. This is well worth watching. Very interesting. |
Wyatt the Odd  | 13 Sep 2009 9:13 p.m. PST |
Funnily enough, my wife can name each detonation just by watching a clip. Wyatt |
| T Callahan | 14 Sep 2009 7:08 a.m. PST |
Wyatt that is a bit scary :) Terry |
| Daffy Doug | 14 Sep 2009 12:55 p.m. PST |
Hmm, all around my birthday. Kind of weird feeling when I think about that…. |
| Jerzei Balowski | 14 Sep 2009 2:33 p.m. PST |
As they used to say on SCTV, "It blowed up real good!" |
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