Thursday, May 31, 2012

Howls of “Ivy”

With all the buzz currently building around Intel’s new Ivy Bridge chip, the historian in me has been wondering whether or not anyone over at Intel knew that the name of the first hydrogen bomb to be tested was “Ivy Mike” (or, for that matter, that the result of that test was the total obliteration of the island of Elugelab)!

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