THE WORLD'S FIRST THERMONUCLEAR
BURN 225 KILOTONS
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George was
the largest nuclear explosion to date (a record that stood until the first
thermonuclear device test, Ivy Mike, 17 months later).
George was a
thermonuclear physics experiment, and used a purely experimental device design
unsuitable for use as a weapon. The test device, named the CYLINDER, consisted
of an enriched uranium core which was imploded using a unique cylindrical
implosion system. This device may have been the first to use external
initiation to begin the fission chain reaction. The Cylinder fission device may
have been based on a design by physicist George Gamow.
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