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English: Later in the development of the Ivy Mike mushroom cloud, the cap spreads out, but the updraft in the stem overshoots higher into the atmosphere.
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Source https://www.britannica.com/technology/thermonuclear-bomb
Author Lookout Mountain Studios

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Central stem updraft overshoots the tropopause in this shot of the Ivy Mike test.

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1 November 1952

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