W.g. Van Dorn

Ivy-mike W.g. Van Dorn

On Saturday, November 1, 1952, the United States detonated the world?s first ?Super Bomb? at Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands. A thermonuclear device, the Super, code named MIKE, demonstrated the capability of producing a fusion reaction on earth, similar to that whereby the Sun produces heat. This book is an historical account of the Scripps Institution?s involvement in that test, because of uncertainty that MIKE?s energy release might blow a section of the atoll away, thus generating a dangerous tsunami. Three days later, a major tsunami was generated by an earthquake in the northeastern Pacific. The narrator closes by conjecturing whether it would have been deemed coincidental, had the real tsunami occurred three days earlier.