Ivy Mike Sausage device

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United States Department of Energy

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nuclearweaponarchive.org

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The Sausage device of Mike nuclear test (yield 10.4 Mt) on Enewetak Atoll. The test was part of the Operation Ivy. The Sausage was the first true H-Bomb ever tested, that is - the first thermonuclear device built upon the Teller-Ulam principles of staged radiation implosion. It consisted of a thick steel radiation case (left), containing a TX-5 fission bomb at bottom as a trigger, and above it a dewar containing several hundred liters of liquid deuterium, the fusion fuel, and a plutonium rod called the "sparkplug" to initiate the fusion reaction. The large pipes at right are "light pipes" to conduct the initial radiation emitted by the explosion to remote instruments to study the physics of the thermonuclear reactions.

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