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[edit] Nuclear Test

Excuse the massive rewrite. The Greenhouse/George blast was the first US Thermonuclear test. Mike was second. I added the chart for consistency with the other test articles. Paul, in Saudi

Let's say it was the first hydrogen bomb test using a Teller-Ulam configuration. That's easier than saying "first thermonuclear test" or even "first hydrogen bomb" or other more ambiguous wordings. --Fastfission 02:07, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Except that Mike was not a bomb! I have followed Hansen's book, in describing it as the first "successful" fusion device - i.e. one which derived a significant fraction of its power from thermonuclear reactions. It's true that it was the first Teller-Ulam configuration device, but that's not going to mean a lot to ordinary readers. "First successful fusion device" is what its real notability is for the average reader. Noel (talk) 8 July 2005 20:25 (UTC)

I still don't think that's very clear. I've changed it to: "was notable for being the first successful test of a multi-megaton thermonuclear weapon design (the Teller-Ulam design), usually considered the world's first hydrogen bomb test." Whether it is technically a bomb or not (it immediately says that it wasn't deployable in the next sentence, so I don't think anyone will be mislead), it is what one means when they say the first H-bomb test. --Fastfission 21:16, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't there be a page for the band Operation Ivy?