Operation Ivy was the eighth series of American nuclear tests, coming after Tumbler-Snapper and before Upshot–Knothole. The two explosions were staged in late 1952 at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Proving Ground in the Marshall Islands.
Background On January 31, 1950, President Harry S. Truman ordered that the US should continue research into all forms of nuclear weapons, including the development of thermonuclear weapons. The Operation Ivy test series was the first to involve a hydrogen bomb rather than an atomic bomb, and was a key step towards Truman's goal. The bombs were prepared by the US Atomic Energy Commission and Department of Defense aboard naval vessels and were capable of being detonated remotely from the control ship USS Estes. On August 13, 1952, Operation Texan, a full-scale rehearsal of Operation Ivy, was conducted at Bergstrom AFB, Texas. The rehearsal allowed crews of effects aircraft, drop aircraft, samplers, sampler controllers, and tankers to practice mission and communications procedures.
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Mike The first Ivy shot, codenamed Mike, was the first successful full-scale test of a multi-megaton thermonuclear weapon ("hydrogen bomb") using the...
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Members
4 people from MusicBrainz
- 1987–1989Tim Armstrong
- 1987–1989Matt Freeman
- —Dave Mello
- —Jesse Michaels
Discography
36 releases from MusicBrainz · ★ 2 in my collection
Albums (1)
- 1989★Energy
EPs (4)
- 1988Hectic E.P.
- 1992Plea for Peace
- 1993'69 Newport
- 1993Lint: The King of Ska
More: singles, compilations, live & other releases
Lives (21)
- 1989Ramones EP
- 1989Smell Rancid...
- 19951988-xx-xx: East Bay: Bay Area, CA, USA
- 2000Sound System
- 2022Under the Gun: Claremont ’88
- 2025I’ll Get Out: Berkeley ’88
- —1987-08-24: Gilman Street Project, Berkeley, CA, USA
- —1988-02-21: Gilman Street Project, Berkeley, CA, USA
- —1988-03-17 AUDa: KSPC Radio, Berkeley, CA, USA
- —1988-03-17 AUDb: KSPC Radio, Berkeley, CA, USA
- —1988-04-15: Norwalk, CT, USA
- —1988-04-21: WFMU Radio, East Orange, NJ, USA
- —1988-04-22: Electric Banana, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- —1988-05-08: Berkeley, CA, USA
- —1988-07-09: Berkeley, CA, USA
- —1988-11-09: Cotati Cabaret, Santa Rosa, CA, USA
- —1988-xx-xx: Bay Area, CA, USA
- —1988-xx-xx: Gilman Street Project, Berkeley, CA, USA
- —1989-05-28: Lint Rides Again: Gilman Street Project, Berkeley, CA, USA
- —Live at Gilman
- —Radio Daze
Compilations (7)
- 1991Operation Ivy
- 1993Seedy
- 1996Unity: The Complete Collection
- 1996Unreleased Energy
- 2004There's A Place
- —★Greatest Hits
- —The Rare Shit
Demos (1)
- 1988"Energy" Demo
Others (2)
- —1988-xx-xx: Energy Session Demos, Bay Area, CA, USA
- —Unreleased GilmanSt. Demos