Richard Garwin
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Richard Lawrence Garwin was an American physicist and government advisor, best known as the author of the first hydrogen bomb design.
Garwin in 2011
Ivy Mike
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Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first full-yield test of a multi-stage thermonuclear device, also known as the Teller–Ulam design. Ivy Mike was detonated on November 1, 1952, by the United Stat
Richard Garwin
…to Los Alamos National Laboratory working on nuclear weapons. Garwin was the author of the actual design used in the first hydrogen bomb (code-named Mike) in 1952. He was assigned the job by Edward Teller, with the instructions that he was to make it as conservative a design as possible in order to prove…
A view of the "Sausage" device casing, with its instrumentation and cryogenic equipment attached. The long pipes were for measurement purposes; their function was to transmit the first radiation from the "primary" and "secondary" stages (known as "Teller light") to instruments just as the device was detonated, before being destroyed in the explosion. The man seated lower right shows scale.
The Ivy Mike shot cab and signal tower.
Enewetak Atoll, before "Mike" shot. Note island of Elugelab on left.
Enewetak Atoll, after "Mike" shot. The crater is on the left.