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Living With the Bomb
AUGUST 2005
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Dawn of the H-Bomb
Photograph from National Nuclear Security Administration
The detonation of the world's first hydrogen bomb shocks the sky on November 1, 1952, above the Pacific Ocean atoll of Enewetak. The U.S. test blast, code-named Ivy Mike, stripped vegetation off nearby islands, dug a crater more than a mile in diameter, and flung chunks of irradiated coral 30 miles (50 kilometers) away from the blast. A single H-bomb could destroy the center of any large city, as blast heat, collapsing buildings, lethal gamma-ray radiation, and widespread fires kill hundreds of thousands of people.
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