The Castle Bravo device was the largest nuclear weapon ever tested by the US. On March 1, 1954 — exactly 69 years ago Wednesday — the military detonated this bomb at Bikini Atoll, a small ...

The Bravo fireball rose at the rate of 1,000 feet per second, and created a mushroom cloud that eventually topped 130,000 feet above sea level. “In mere seconds the sailors sensed that something ...

The Bravo detonation in the Castle test series had an explosive yield of 15 megatons—1,000 times that of the weapon that destroyed Hiroshima and nearly three times the six megatons that its ...

The Bravo fireball rose at the rate of 1,000 feet per second, and created a mushroom cloud that eventually topped 130,000 feet above sea level. “In mere seconds the sailors sensed that something ...

If a bomb as powerful as the "Castle Bravo", the most potent nuclear device ever tested by the US, were to hit Los Angeles, the fallout would be catastrophic, with a yield of 15,000 kilotons.

Castle Bravo Next up is Castle Bravo, the second most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated. This massive bomb weighed about 10 tons and was nearly 5 meters long.

Bravo’s explosive power turned out to be 15 megatons, the equivalent of 15 million tons of TNT, more than double what had been expected, and the largest nuclear test in U.S. history — almost ...

CASTLE BRAVO By Karna Small Bodman Headline Books, $24.95 320 pages Karna Small Bodman is now on her third career. First, she was a television reporter, anchor and commentator in San Francisco ...

There is more to know about Strauss’s role in the devastating aftermath of the Castle Bravo test in 1954. Ad Policy Robert Downey Jr. poses with his award for Best Performance by a Male Actor in ...