Nuclear Bomb - First H Bomb test - YouTube
Nuclear Bomb - First H Bomb test - YouTube : "Nuclear Bomb - First H Bomb test" Ivy Mike was the first H Bomb test, it was exploded at 7.15 am local time on November 1st 1952. The mushroom cloud was 8 miles across and 27 miles high. The canopy was 100 miles wide. Radioactive mud fell out of the sky followed by heavy rain. 80 million tons of earth was vaporised. Mike was the first ever megaton yeild explosion. I think that this footage is available in the "TRINITY AND BEYOND™ (The Atomic Bomb Movie)" movie (http://www.atomcentral.com/trinity.html) Related articles It Was On A Night Like This In Russia, 50 Years Ago... (forbes.com) US Dismantles Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb (inquisitr.com) End of an era: Last of big atomic bombs dismantled (sfgate.com) Nov. 1, 1952 | First Hydrogen Bomb Test (learning.blogs.nytimes.com) US dismantles last big Cold War nuclear bomb (telegraph.co.uk) Dr. Helen Caldicott on Fukushima and the Perils of Nuclear Power -...