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On Saturday, November 1, 1952, a momentous event in history took place in total secrecy - the United States detonated the world's first "Super Bomb" at Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands. A thermonuclear device, codenamed Mike, demonstrated the capability of producing a fusion reaction on earth, a process similar to that which powers the sun. This book is a riveting historical account of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's involvement in that test, because of uncertainty that Mike might blow a section of the atoll away, thus generating a dangerous tsunami. Three days later, a natural earthquake generated a large tsunami in the northwestern Pacific. The author conjectures whether it would have been deemed coincidental had the real tsunami occurred three days earlier.
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Dr. William G. Van Dorn received his BS in engineering at Stanford, and his MS and PhD at the University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His career-long study of ocean waves and participation in most of the U.S. Pacific nuclear tests led to his recognition as a world's authority on tsunamis. He is the author of the widely read nautical book, Oceanography and Seamanship.
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- Publication date2008
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- ISBN 13 9781425775391
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