Castle Bravo Thermonuclear Device (15 megatons)

Castle Bravo excerpt from "Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie"

Directed by Peter Kuran and Narrated by William Shatner

Castle Bravo was the code name of the first test by the United States, of a dry fuel thermonuclear hydrogen bomb (Teller-Ulam fission bomb nicknamed "Shrimp"), during Operation Castle, on February 28, 1954, on Nam Island in the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Expected to yield 4 to 6 megatons, the device yielded 15 megatons at detonation, causing accidental widespread radioactive contamination. It also led to military personnel, islanders, and the crew of a Japanese fishing boat, being rained on, and exposed to radioactive fallout from the dust plume.

Castle Bravo is the worst radiological disaster in US history.

For further information about this test, please visit: http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Castle.html

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• Beyond
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• Bravo
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• weapons

[saltydog45]

An incredible,yet terrifying movie on mans wish to wipe out another nationr,in the process,wiping out the rest of us...

[lofi73]

1:41 already burning bird takes off of the palm tree on the right side of the screen...Apparently it did´nt make it very far.And again a seagull at 2:10 in the left side of the picture

[CaH6633]

Megadeth took their greatest hits album cover from this...i knew it looked familiar when i saw this vid lol

[Sephirius]

This is one of the best documentaries ever made. This should have won an oscar. Incredible.

[EMPPT]

2:25 is amazing.

[alphamone]

@TheOglibogli

indeed. the reason for the huge yields was so that even with the poor guidance of bombs back then they would still devastate the target.

[TheOglibogli]

@Zigglyfug Too big yields to be practical, aswell bombs of such size weights alot. With today's presicion guidance, smaller yields works "just fine" to put it that way. But well, even 1 megaton of an explosion has horrendous effects.

[Zigglyfug]

Was it melting the trees? I hope those never have to get put into use, our world would be ruined forever. It's a great way to kill every last human with radiation sickness.

[NANOFORGE]

@BabyHominid Indeed, And whats even more scarey is the Tsar Bomba was nealry 5 times as powerful.

[BabyHominid]

A most incredible fireball. Hypnotizing. Damn, someone's going to be stupid enough to use this thing for real one day. :-(