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The short film Military Effects Studies Operation Castle (1954) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. The short film Nuclear Test Film – Operation Castle (1954) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. US tests hydrogen bomb in Bikini ; First-person article about conducting the test
The most notable event of Operation Castle was the Castle Bravo test. The dry fuel for Bravo was 40% Li-6 and 60% Li-7. Only the Li-6 was expected to breed tritium for the deuterium-tritium fusion reaction; the Li-7 was expected to be inert.
Path of the nuclear fallout plume after the Castle Bravo test: the large plume lead to evacuations of additional atolls. The Rongelap Atoll was coated with up to 0.8 in (2.0 cm) of snow-like irradiated calcium debris and ash over the entire island. Virtually all the inhabitants experienced severe radiation sickness, including itchiness, sore ...
First Pictures Atomic Blast!, 1946/07/08 (1946) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive; Nuclear Test Film – Project Crossroads is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive (42m32s) Atom Bomb (Joe Bonica's Movie of the Month) (ca. 1955) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet ...
Daigo Fukuryū Maru (第五福龍丸, F/V Lucky Dragon 5) was a Japanese tuna fishing boat with a crew of 23 men which was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States Castle Bravo thermonuclear weapon test at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954. The crew suffered acute radiation syndrome (ARS) for
Developed between 1956 and 1961 as the Soviet Union engaged in a nuclear arms race with the United States, the Tsar Bomba - the King of Bombs - was the largest hydrogen bomb ever and was claimed ...
Six very large nuclear tests were conducted at the Bikini Atoll and the Enewetak Atoll as part of Operation Castle in 1954. The most notable was Castle Bravo, which was the first deployable (dry fuel) hydrogen bomb developed by the United States. Its yield, at 15 Mt, was over twice as powerful as was predicted, and remains the largest weapon ...
U.S. detonated 1,000 nuclear tests. Radiation Exposure Compensation for thousands of impacted downwind Americans is expiring unless the House acts.