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I edited the levels of the photograph to bring out more detail and remove the glare.PiccoloNamek 07:10, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 ambiguous statement... 2 Video? 3 incorrect statement 4 Was Castle Bravo successful? 5 Incorrect statement 6 Mike Fireball??

[edit] ambiguous statement...

From the article:

Only 408 personnel are said to have received no radiation following the test.

What the heck does this mean, or more to the point what was it supposed to mean?--Robert Merkel 00:01, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Video?

The article talks about the shot being filmed, and that film being later released to the public. I have tried locating a copy of said film on the Internet, but only found one version of very low quality, with unneccessary background music and being just a few seconds long, too short to be interesting (Video). Does anyone have a copy of this film or knows where we could get one? --capnez 11:17, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

http://www.archive.org/details/OperationIVY1952

[edit] incorrect statement

I edited the sentence saying that "at 10.6 Megatons it is the largest detonation in history." It was not, in fact. That honor goes to the Czar Bomba at nearly FIFTY megatons.

"In history" can be somewhat complicated; sometimes it means "up to that point in history", sometimes not. Anyway it is clearly that particular meaning that is meant here and it should/could be clarified. --24.147.86.187 (talk) 23:04, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Was Castle Bravo successful?

"that test was cancelled when the Bravo device was successful." Didn't that test exceed its design yield causing a severe nuclear incident? Hardly successful. Howboutpete 20:33, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Depends how you define successful. If you mean, "a full-scale thermonuclear detonation of dry fusion fuel" then yeah, it was successful. --24.147.86.187 01:38, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

The wording could be more informative here. ".. a little (too) successful" is confusing. Does that imply that the US slowed down its nuclear program because of the casualties from Ivy Mike? If so, a citation would be very helpful. --joe056

Huh? No. It means that they didn't need to use the wet fuel bombs anymore. --24.147.86.187 (talk) 23:03, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Incorrect statement

First the article says that the bomb was detonated on November 1, 1952

And then it says that Ivy Mike was the first of some 43 nuclear tests fired at Enewetak from 1948 to 1958.

The big question is: If this was the first bomb, then how did it detonate both 1948 AND 1952? Was it a hell of a bomb perhaps? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.208.228.170 (talk) 22:01, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Whomever copied the info from the Enewetak article mangled it up. It was the first H-bomb test there (no surprise, it was the first in the world) but not the first nuclear test there. --24.147.86.187 (talk) 22:59, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mike Fireball??

Does there really need to be an article about the fireball? I've never seen it listed as a separate codename; it was the fireball of the MIKE shot, it doesn't need it's own article. --24.147.86.187 (talk) 22:57, 20 November 2007 (UTC)