A dedicated laboratory was set up right at Enewetak Atoll for preliminary analysis of debris, as some isotopes could have decayed by the time the debris samples reached the U.S.
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After the war, as a result of the world’s first hydrogen bomb explosion on a Pacific atoll in 1952, Huizenga was part of the team that added two new synthetic chemical elements einsteinium and fermium to the Periodic table.