In a classified official film documenting the preparations for and results of this nuclear test, 14 at-scale cutouts of the Pentagon building were superimposed inside of the enormous crater where Elugelab once stood to help demonstrate one primary effect of the power of this unprecedented explosion.

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Here are remarkable before and after photographs of the MIKE test’s almost unimaginable impact on Enewetak Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, showing the complete disappearance of Elugelab Island and the partial destruction of Sanil Island, leaving in their place a massive crater on the lagoon floor.

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MIKE’s cloud rose 10.8 miles high in just 90 seconds. Sixty seconds later, it had reached 20.5 miles, and topped out at 22.7 miles. Thirty minutes after detonation, it was 60 miles across. MIKE was the fourth largest US nuclear test, with 77% of its yield derived from fission and 23% from fusion.

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At this moment in 1952 (7:14:59 AM November 1, local time), the United States tested the first true (albeit undeliverable, weighing a massive 82 tons) hydrogen bomb at Enewetak Atoll. The 10.4-Megaton MIKE explosion vaporized Elugelab Island, leaving behind a crater 1.2 miles wide and 164 feet deep.

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