SPOTLIGHT: "Mike" — The World's First Thermonuclear Weapon | Encyclopaedia Britannica

In an operation code-named Mike, the first thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb) was detonated at Enewetak atoll in the Marshall Islands, Nov. 1, 1952.

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