Operation Ivy/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Operation Ivy.

Conducted in the Marshall Islands in 1952, a pair of U.S. nuclear tests that validated the Teller-Ulam design principle for fusion weapons, and also verified a backup extremely high-yield fission device

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