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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.
