From June 1951 to May 1953 , Hayward was head of the Military Applications Division of the Atomic Energy Commission , where he conducted atomic weapons laboratory work at Los Alamos National Laboratory . He also worked on the foundation of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory program in 1952 in close collaboration with Edward Teller . The culmination of this was working on the Ivy Mike nuclear test
Ivy Mike
Ivy Mike
John T. Hayward