No radiation was released into the atmosphere, he insisted, adding that scientists tested a fission device, a low-yield device and a thermonuclear device.
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Forty-three nuclear tests were fired at Eniwetok from 1948 to 1958, including Ivy Mike, the first full scale test of a thermonuclear device.
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I'm trying to determine whether the statement " the first thermonuclear device was detonated on US soil " is technically correct or not.
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No . 47782 is an H-bomb _ a Mark 15, Mod 0, one of the earliest thermonuclear devices developed by the United States.
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Again, the Soviets surprised the world by exploding a deployable thermonuclear device in August 1953 although it was not a true multi-stage hydrogen bomb.
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It was the first such barge-based test, a necessity that had come about because the powerful thermonuclear devices completely obliterated the small islands following detonation.
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Known as the Mark 15, Mod 0, the four-ton, 11-foot-long bomb is a thermonuclear device, the first of its type deployed by the Air Force.
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Scholars dispute the authenticity of RDS-6 as a thermonuclear device as it did not manage to produce a yield consistent with a true hydrogen bomb.
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Though organized as a secret test, Castle Bravo quickly became an international incident, prompting calls for a ban on the atmospheric testing of thermonuclear devices.
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With the basic fusion reactions confirmed, and with a feasible design in hand, there was nothing to prevent Los Alamos from testing a thermonuclear device.