87K views · 730 reactions | On March 1, 1954, a B-57B Canberra jet filmed Castle Bravo, the largest U.S. nuclear test, at Bikini Atoll, capturing its 15-megaton blast—bigger than the expected 6 megatons—as part of Operation Castle. The plane recorded the huge fireball and cloud, but the explosion’s fallout spread far, harming people nearby and a Japanese fishing crew, making the footage a key Cold War record. | Historyinmemes | Facebook

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The 1954 U.S. thermonuclear test called Castle Bravo, detonated at Bikini Atoll, was far more powerful and environmentally damaging than anyone had expected. With climate change and rising seas, the toxic legacy we buried in the Marshall Islands is about to be uncovered. https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/ | Los Angeles Times

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“Castle Bravo”, the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US, captured by a B57-B Canberra(1954) flying at 30,000 feet. This was our the first test of a hydrogen bomb by the United States, conducted on March 1, 1954, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands as part of Operation Castle. It was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States and remains infamous for its unexpected scale of destruction and fallout. The weapon was predicted to have a yield of 6 megat