Operation Ivy KING, 1952 - Album alb3818876

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Operation Ivy KING, 1952

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Operation Ivy was the eighth series of American nuclear tests. Its purpose was to help upgrade the U.S. arsenal of nuclear weapons in response to the Soviet nuclear weapons program. The two explosions were staged in late 1952 at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Proving Ground in the Marshall Islands. The second test, King, fired the largest nuclear weapon to date using only nuclear fission (no fusion nor fusion boosting). This "Super Oralloy Bomb" was intended as a backup if the fusion weapon failed. King yielded 500 kilotons, 25 times more powerful than the Fat Man weapon. During the Manhattan Project enriched uranium was given the codename oralloy, a shortened version of Oak Ridge alloy. Enriched uranium is a type of uranium in which the percent composition of uranium-235 has been increased through the process of isotope separation.

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Album / Science Source / NNSA/NV Field Office

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Image size:

4200 x 2625 px | 31.5 MB

Print size:

35.6 x 22.2 cm | 14.0 x 8.8 in (300 dpi)

Keywords:

1952 • 20 XX TWENTIETH CENTURY • 20TH CENTURY • 20TH • A-BOMB • AMERICA • AMERICAN • ARMS • ATOM BOMB • ATOMIC BOMB RESEARCH • ATOMIC BOMB TEST • ATOMIC BOMB • ATOMIC DEVICE • ATOMIC RESEARCH • ATOMIC TESTING • ATOMIC WEAPON • BLAST • BLASTING • CELEBRITY • DETONATE • DETONATING • DETONATION • ENEWETAK ATOLL • ENIEWETOK ATOLL • ENIWETOK ATOLL • EVENT • EXPLODING • EXPLOSION • FAMOUS • FISSION WEAPON • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • HUNDRED YEARS WAR • HYDROGEN BOMB RESEARCH • HYDROGEN BOMB TEST • HYDROGEN BOMB • HYDROGEN DEVICES HYDROGEN WEAPON • IMPORTANT • IVY KING • MARSHALL ISLANDS • NOTABLE • NOVEMBER 15 • NOVEMBER 15TH • NUCLEAR BOMB RESEARCH • NUCLEAR BOMB TEST • NUCLEAR BOMB • NUCLEAR DEVICE • NUCLEAR FISSION • NUCLEAR TESTING • NUCLEAR WEAPON • OCEAN, PACIFIC • OPERATION IVY KING • OPERATION IVY • PACIFIC OCEAN • PACIFIC PROVING GROUND • PACIFIC PROVING GROUNDS • RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT • RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT • RESEARCH • SCIENCE • SIEGE • SITE • SUPER ORALLOY BOMB • TECHNOLOGICAL • TECHNOLOGY • THERMONUCLEAR BOMB RESEARCH • THERMONUCLEAR BOMB TEST • THERMONUCLEAR TESTING • TWENTIETH CENTURY • UNDERWATER-DEPLOYED • UNITED STATES • US • USA • WAR • WARFARE • WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION • WEAPON • WEAPONARY • WEAPONRY • WEAPONS • WELL-KNOWN • WMD