Carson Chittom <[email protected]> writes: > Today's calendar reminder includes: > >> Nov 18 First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952 > > All the sources I could find online say that the first hydrogen bomb, > the Ivy Mike device, was actually detonated on Nov 1 local (Oct 31 > UTC). Wikipedia has a writeup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_Mike > > Additionally, the common spelling of the atoll appears to be Enewetak > (not -tok).
Sorry, should have said, this is from calendar.history. Though I note that calendar.ushistory includes a line also: > 05/21 US explodes first hydrogen bomb, 1956 Not sure what this is a reference to.
