November 1, 1951 –
US Soldiers were exposed to an atomic explosion for the first time in training exercises, at Desert Rock, Nevada on this date.
Participation was not voluntary and served both to train and indoctrinate.
The next year:
November 1, 1952 –
The United States successfully detonated the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed “Ivy Mike,” in the Eniwetok Atoll of the Marshall Islands, on this date. The bomb has a yield of ten megatons, a force a thousand times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
Eighty million tons of soil were kicked into the air by the blast. The “mushroom” cloud rose to 135,000 feet and would eventually spread to 1,000 miles in width. It was the first time fusion occurred on Earth.
And so it goes
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