National Test Exercise - Operation Ivy
Item Information
- Title:
- National Test Exercise - Operation Ivy
- Description:
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Man
- Creator:
- Federal Civil Defense Administration. Region I. 1951-1958
- Photographer:
- United States. Air Force
- Name on Item:
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U.S. Air Force
- Date:
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April 5, 1954
- Format:
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Photographs
- Genre:
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Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
- Location:
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National Archives at Boston
Box ID: 05 (shelf locator) - Collection (local):
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Record Group 304: Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
- Series:
- Civil Defense Photographs, 1951-1961
- Subjects:
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Civil defense
Operation Ivy, Marshall Islands, 1952
Peterson, Val
- Places:
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Marshall Islands
- Extent:
- 1 photograph : print ; 8.5 x 11 in.
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/h128rw380
- Terms of Use:
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No Copyright - United States
Unrestricted
This work is in the public domain under a Creative Commons No Rights Reserved License (CC0).
- Notes:
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Title from accompanying material.
Text from item: Terming Operation IVY "and awesome turning point for our history," Federal Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson concludes the official IVY motion picture showing by urging two courses of action: (1) Unceasing efforts to reach international agreements on such constructive proposals as that of the President to the United Nations for the use of the atom for peace and progress of mankind, and (2) Steadfast preparation "by each of us to back up our President by civilian preparedness at home, so that in his quest for peace he may continue to lead from strength." Operation IVY was conducted by Joint Task Force 132, for the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense, at the AEC's Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands in the fall of 1952. Operation IVY involved an experimental thermonuclear or "hydrogen" detonation. The thermonuclear device, code-named MIKE, caused the greatest destructive effects ever noted from a single explosive device. The particular test island (ELUGELAB) of the atoll completely disappeared. The resulting nuclear "fireball" was the largest ever produced. Joint Task Force 132 was commanded by Major General Percy W. Clarkson, USA. Dr. Alvin Graves, of AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, was Scientific Deputy to the Task Force Commander. Scientific and military tests were conducted by a Scientific Task Group, supported by Army, Navy and Air Force Task Groups. Photos #1 through #18 in this series were prepared by the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense. They are issued by the Federal Civil Defense Administration because as President Eisenhower has said, "If the peoples of the world are to conduct an intelligent search for peace, they must be armed with the significant facts of today's existence."
- Notes (date):
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Date from item or accompanying material.
- Accession #:
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824935
- Identifier:
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0901
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