Castle Bravo - Wikipedia
Castle Bravo is the sixth largest nuclear explosion in history, exceeded by the Soviet tests of Tsar Bomba at approximately 50 Mt, Test 219 at 24.2 Mt, and three other (Test 147, Test 173 and Test 174) ≈20 Mt Soviet tests in 1962 at Novaya Zemlya.
Castle BRAVO at 70: The Worst Nuclear Test in U.S. History
Washington, D.C., February 29, 2024 - Seventy years ago, on 1 March 1954 (28 February in Washington), the U.S. government detonated a thermonuclear weapon, code-named “Shrimp,” on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in what turned out to be the largest nuclear test in U.S. history.
Castle Bravo - Nuclear Museum
On March 1, 1954, the United States carried out its largest nuclear detonation, “Castle Bravo,” at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The Bravo shot was the first test of Operation Castle, a series of thermonuclear tests.
Operation Castle - Wikipedia
Operation Castle was a United States series of high-yield (high-energy) nuclear tests by Joint Task Force 7 (JTF-7) at Bikini Atoll beginning in March 1954. It followed Operation Upshot–Knothole and preceded Operation Teapot.
60th Anniversary of Castle BRAVO Nuclear Test, the Worst …
2014年2月28日 · The 15-megaton Castle BRAVO nuclear test, 1 March 1954, created a crater a mile wide and spread radioactive fallout around the world. The mushroom cloud rose to 130,000 feet and broadened to more than 25 miles in diameter.
Operation CASTLE Commander's Report - Archive.org
2014年12月31日 · Reports indicate that Bravo was the single worst incident of fallout exposure in all of the U.S. atmospheric testing program. Despite winds in an acceptable flow zone, the greatly unexpected yield caused a much larger mushroom than originally calculated, causing a much wider and massive accumulation path of fallout danger.
Castle Bravo: America’s Largest Nuclear Test - Brookings
2014年2月27日 · March 1 marks the 60th anniversary of Castle Bravo, the largest thermonuclear device ever detonated by the United States. The test was part of a larger operation for testing high-yield...
Operation Castle - Nuclear Weapon Archive
2006年5月17日 · It was the largest bomb ever tested by the U.S. although this was by accident. The yield of Bravo dramatically exceeded predictions, being about 2.5 times higher than the best guess and almost double the estimated maximum possible yield …
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Operation CASTLE
Operation CASTLE was a six-detonation nuclear weapon test series (see table) held at the Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) Pacific Proving Ground (PPG) from March 1 to May 31, 1954. The PPG consisted principally of Enewetak and Bikini Atolls in the northwestern Marshall Islands in the Central Pacific Ocean.
Castle Bravo Archives - The National Interest
Key Point: From the moment the device detonated, many of the observers knew something had gone spectacularly wrong. More than 60 years ago on an island in the South Pacific, scientists...
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