Summary of Simon Winchester's Pacific

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The first thermonuclear bomb was tested on May 8, 1951. It was a small prototype device, known as George, that was exploded three months later. Then, on November 1, 1952, the first true thermonuclear test weapon, known as Mike, was detonated. #2 The islands that would be used for the test were first spotted by an English seafarer named John Marshall in the eighteenth century. The island inhabitants were Malay