Castle Bravo, large thermonuclear hydrogen bomb



Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first United States test of a dry fuel thermonuclear hydrogen bomb, detonated on March 1, 1954 at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as the first test of Operation Castle. Castle Bravo was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States (and just under one-third the energy of the most powerful ever detonated), with a yield of 15 megatons of TNT. That yield, far exceeding the expected yield of 4 to 6 megatons, combined with other factors, led to the most significant accidental radiological contamination ever caused by the United States. Fallout from the detonation (Intended to be a secret test) poisoned some of the islanders upon their return, as well as the crew of Daigo Fukuryū Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5"), a Japanese fishing boat, and created international concern about atmospheric thermonuclear testing.

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  1. My computer when I accidentally open internet explorer
  2. USA: We have castle bravo! Fear us Soviets!

    USSR: Hehehehehe... HAHAHAHA! Tsar Explosion

    Result: Nuclear disarmament(?) treaty
  3. i was wondering it looks as theres a smaller explosion on top and a huge one beneath it. random? primarys explosion on top of the secondarys?
  4. this times 1000 and you get Judgement Day
  5. Was it detonated at night
  6. holy shit holy shit holy shit
  7. The explosion was so bright it completely blocked out the sun, scary ass shit lol
  8. I still alive >:)
  9. Well here I am
  10. Anythimg higher than 3 Magatons is quite literally pointless. but I think we should Build a 500 magaton bomb just for the shits and giggles.
  11. beautifull, 2 bad its not over moscow
  12. At 2:29 you can clearly see the face of Gorbachev at the centre of the explosion
  13. WW3 will destroy all of the living in this planet. No one will ever survive a Nuclear war, I'm serious. Even if you are NOT affected by the blast of a Nuclear Exposions, The RADIATION emitted in the sky will kill you and some call it nuclear winter, even middle east will be colder than antartica today.
  14. it looks like a smaller explosion occurs on top and another larger one in the bottom. Anyone knows if the first is the atomic and the other the thermonuclear, or is it just a random event?
  15. WE ARE GODS
    FEEL THE POWER
  16. dude...fuck being the pilot homie
  17. AKIRA
  18. Jesus it being larger and more powerful then they expected shows they didn't really know what they where doing, and nuclear power is greater then scientists lol
  19. Too bad Alvin C. Graves wasn't killed in the Demon Core accident at Los Alamos in 1946. The one that killed Louis Slotin. Graves was in the same room.


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