Trinity and Beyond Page #5

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north of Las Vegas.

Before you can test the

Weapons of Operation Greenhouse,

the operation was performed Ranger

during which five

new types of nuclear weapons

were launched on

new test area.

First explosion to United States

from Trinity.

With the confidence of having

The new weapons in hand,

Operation Greenhouse was

conducted in Spring 1951.

4 launches took place

Greenhouse during the operation.

One of them, "Easy"

a structural test was controlled

by the Ministry of Defence.

A nuclear device of 47

kilotonnes was placed on a tower,

which blew many buildings,

that had been built

to test the survivability

in a nuclear environment.

Test structural effects.

The fourth test of the operation

Greenhouse testing was "Item".

A trial approximately 45.5 kilotonnes

in which tritium was burned

in the center of the nuclear explosion.

And this process, placing the center of tritium

of nuclear weapons is called "Boosting".

We increased the yield

from 20 to 45.5 kilotonnes,

more than double,

through this process.

A very important feature

to increase the storage capacity

nuclear weapons of United States

at that time.

First test of the principle "Boosting"

Another event of Greenhouse

was the event called "George."

George was a huge weapon

of 225 kilotons

which was used to burn

a capsule deuterium.

This was the first experience with weapon

Thermonuclear we conducted.

HYDROGEN BOMB DO

Several people have mentioned, we

have discussed many times.

the end of the war, most

people wanted to stop, but not me.

Because there was a more

extensive knowledge in the key.

And in uncertain times

was to come,

with dangerous men

the world as Stalin

and our incomplete knowledge,

I thought it was necessary

to learn more.

Among all who knew

along the hydrogen bomb,

I was his only supporter.

And that is why I

given my contribution.

Not that I invented,

others have done,

and others in a common

Soviet did,

but I was the person

who has knowledge

and the availability of such knowledge

above all.

And I must say that

it has pleased Trueman,

, and he made the right decision.

"Truman approves

the hydrogen bomb "

Welcome aboard

USS Estes.

As you may know,

Estes is the command ship

the joint working group "1-42".

We are just minutes

the first explosion, "Mike"

Operation Ivy.

59 minutes to be exact.

We are here since dawn,

and we talked all night

wee hours of the morning.

As you can imagine,

emotions are very strong

right now.

And there are reasons for this.

If all goes as planned,

we shall see

The most powerful explosion

never caused on

the surface of the earth.

Island test "Mike"

is located in the north

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