"15 Megatons of Hell: The Castle Bravo Nuke Test" Topic
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| Tango01 | 02 Mar 2015 10:51 p.m. PST |
"Sixty-one years ago on an island in the South Pacific, scientists and military officers, fishermen and Marshall Islands natives observed first-hand what Armageddon would be like. And it almost killed them all. The Atomic Energy Commission code-named the nuclear test Castle Bravo. The March 1, 1954 experiment was the first thermonuclear explosion based on practical technology that would lead to a deliverable H-bomb for the Air Force's Strategic Air Command—part of the Operation Castle series of tests needed to manufacture the high-yield weapons. Bravo was the worst radiological disaster in American atomic testing history—but the test provided information that led to a lightweight, high-yield megaton bomb that would fit inside a SAC bomber…"
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| Allen57 | 03 Mar 2015 12:10 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 03 Mar 2015 10:23 a.m. PST |
But true. Amicalement
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| HistoryPhD | 03 Mar 2015 8:21 p.m. PST |
And it still wasn't a patch on the Soviet Czar Bomba test in 1961. The yield was somewhere between 50 and 58 megatons |
| Lion in the Stars | 04 Mar 2015 12:51 p.m. PST |
@HistoryPhD: yeah, but the Soviets were expecting 50-58 megatons. The US guys were only expecting 5mt and set up all their instrumentation and safety areas around that expectation. And then they got 3x that yield. |
| HistoryPhD | 04 Mar 2015 7:11 p.m. PST |
The Soviets had actually claimed that the bomb could be dialed up to at least 75 megatons, but what they got scared them, so they never tried it |
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