Doctor Radiation's write-up in Super Scum puts the nuclear test that empowered him and Cascade, and turned Harvey Banks into an origin magnet, in 1952. According to the Wikipedia entry on Eniwetok Atoll (which, these days, is spelled "Enewetak" to more properly reflect Marshall Islander pronunciation), this would make it part of Operation Ivy. The question is, which part?
The OTL-historical tests, Ivy Mike (the first H-bomb) and Ivy King (which tested a more potent implosion system called the "Super Oralloy Bomb"), both have similarities with the test described on pp.SS8-9 and SS15, but neither's really an exact match for Mark Johnson's statement that Glass and Banks "had altered the bomb to produce a previously unencountered form of radiation." As such, I think it's legitimate to interpolate a third test, unique to the Krypton skerry (call it "Ivy Lima").
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The OTL-historical tests, Ivy Mike (the first H-bomb) and Ivy King (which tested a more potent implosion system called the "Super Oralloy Bomb"), both have similarities with the test described on pp.SS8-9 and SS15, but neither's really an exact match for Mark Johnson's statement that Glass and Banks "had altered the bomb to produce a previously unencountered form of radiation." As such, I think it's legitimate to interpolate a third test, unique to the Krypton skerry (call it "Ivy Lima").
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