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Operation Ivy

The US government's development of the hydrogen bomb culminates in a historic test explosion above Bikini Atoll.

The documentary chronicles the preparation and execution of Operation Ivy, a series of American nuclear tests, featuring the first successful full-scale test of a multi-megaton hydrogen bomb and a second test with an air-dropped bomb, conducted on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Info about Operation Ivy

Studio(s): Department of Defense, J.T.F. 132 T.G. 1231 Task Unit Nine

Originally Released: United States, Jan 01, 1952

Production Country: United States

Genres:Documentary