The scientific result of the test was the experimental verification of the principles of calculation and design of multistage thermonuclear charges. It was experimentally proven that there is no fundamental limitation on increasing the power of a thermonuclear charge (however, as early as October 30, 1949, three years before the Ivy Mike test, in the Supplement to the official report of the General Advisory Committee of the US Atomic Energy Commission, nuclear physicists Enrico Fermi and Isidor Isaac Rabi noted that thermonuclear weapons have "unlimited destructive power" and that the cost of increasing the yield of the munition in 1950 financial year prices was 60 cents per kiloton of TNT.) In the tested specimen of the bomb, to raise the explosion power by another 50 megatons, it was enough to replace the lead sheath with uranium-238, as was normally expected. The replacement of the cladding material and the decrease in the explosion power were motivated by the desire to reduce the amount of radioactive fallout to an acceptable level, and not by the desire to reduce the weight of the bomb, as is sometimes believed (the weight of the AN602 really decreased from this, but insignificantly – the uranium cladding was supposed to weigh about 2800 kg, the lead sheath of the same volume – based on the lower density of lead – is about 1700 kg. The resulting relief of just over one ton is weakly noticeable with a total mass of AN602 of at least 24 tons and did not affect the state of affairs with its transportation.