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PART Ii
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WEAPONS
1. The major events of the period included:
a. Successful detonation of the first full-scale
thermcnucleer device at Operation IVY, in November
1952;
aryl
Yu
bebe
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ec.
rirst flights of guided mis-iles
atomic warheads (dummy cores).
Test of
DEILPTED
=. The Fresident on January 31,
mission “to procésa to determine the
thermenuclesr weapon,"
ber 1,
rade with
1952
avtcns,
less
(Eniwetok date),
1950,
directed the Com-
technical feasibility of a
than three years ister,
cn Nevem-
2 lergée-yiele thermonuclear device,
prelimi nary eStirate.
This was
scmewnet
larger tnin the
4-6 megetons exfected, ane 4s the equivalent of
the 20 kKiloton energy releese of the sc-called nceminel fission
tomb
tomb.
The DELETLyVes
tled and
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detcnated
in a smal
ing on the ground surface, near the center of @ small island,