IVY-MIKE

On Saturday November 1 1952 A Momentous Event In History Took Place In Total Secrecy - The United States Detonated The World'S First Super Bomb At Eniwetok Atoll Marshall Islands. A Thermonuclear Device Codenamed Mike Demonstrated The Capability Of Producing A Fusion Reaction On Earth A Process Similar To That Which Powers The Sun. This Book Is A Riveting Historical Account Of The Scripps Institution Of Oceanography'S Involvement In That Test Because Of Uncertainty That Mike Might Blow A Section Of The Atoll Away Thus Generating A Dangerous Tsunami. Three Days Later A Natural Earthquake Generated A Large Tsunami In The Northwestern Pacific. The Author Conjectures Whether It Would Have Been Deemed Coincidental Had The Real Tsunami Occurred Three Days Earlier.