The fact that the tamper material was uranium enriched in 235U is primarily based on the final fission reaction fragments detected in the radiochemical analysis, which conclusively showed the presence of 237U, found by the Japanese in the shot debris. The Atomic Energy Commission code-named the nuclear test Castle Bravo. Upon their return, they discovered that their previous staple foods, including arrowroot, makmok, and fish, had either disappeared or gave residents various illnesses,[36] and they were again removed. The Castle Bravo incident caused international consternation. It was considered successful enough that the planned operation series Domino, designed to explore the same question about a suitable primary for thermonuclear bombs, could be canceled. All rights reserved. "The Legacy of U.S. Nuclear Testing and Radiation Exposure in the Marshall Islands.". The enriched lithium used in Bravo was nominally 40% lithium-6 (the remainder was the much more common lithium-7, which was incorrectly assumed to be inert). This story had to be toldbecause radioactivity persisted and could deny territory to normal use. One of the largest and most ambitious engineering projects in modern history, the Panama Canal was also one of the deadliest, at 30,609 deaths. The remains of the Castle Bravo causeway are at 11426N 165177E / 11.70167N 165.28528E / 11.70167; 165.28528. Boron also played a role in increasing the compressive plasma pressure around the secondary by blocking the sputtering effect, leading to higher thermonuclear efficiency. The first in the series to be tested, a 15-megaton bomb called Bravo, was detonated on March 1st. This was also the reason why the lower-enriched slugs of fusion fuel were placed far aft of the fuel capsule. [15] This constant wall temperature is dictated by the ablation pressure requirements to drive compression, which lie on average at about 0.4 keV (out of a range of 0.2 to 2 keV)[Note 4], corresponding to several million kelvins. Rotblat deduced that the bomb had three stages and showed that the fission phase at the end of the explosion increased the amount of radioactivity a thousand-fold. Castle-Bravo Air Concentration and Deposition Patterns from a 3-D Particlein-Cell Cace by Kendall R. Peterson May 18, 1931 ABSTRACT The MATHEW-ADPIC code suite has been extensively modified to give the total external dose from the detonation of the Castle-Bravo nuclear test at Bikini Atoll until evacuation of the inhabitants of neardy atolls. Test 173. The narrator, the western actor Reed Hadley, is filmed aboard the control ship in that film, showing the final conference. The device was mounted in a "shot cab" on an artificial island built on a reef off Namu Island, in Bikini Atoll. The decision to carry out the Bravo test under the prevailing winds was made by Dr. Alvin C. Graves, the Scientific Director of Operation Castle. The latter's insatiable bloodlust was kept intact. Bravo Fallout Plume (37 K) Bravo fallout plume superimposed over the USA:525x531 version (9 K) 657x664 version (12 K) Castle Romeo. There are also correlations between fallout exposure levels and diseases such as thyroid disease like hypothyroidism. Even in Tokyos enormous fish market sold very few fish for weeks. Because the Castle Bravo test was done near ground . Lithium-6 indeed reacted in this manner. [53] Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov hit upon what the Soviet Union regarded as "Sakharov's third idea" during the month after the Castle Bravo test, the final piece of the puzzle being the idea that the compression of the secondary can be accomplished by the primary's X-rays before fusion began. Sir Joseph Rotblat, working at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, demonstrated that the contamination caused by the fallout from the test was far greater than that stated officially. Rowberry, Ariana. Following the test, the United States Department of Energy estimated that 253 inhabitants of the Marshall Islands were impacted by the radioactive fallout. The ratio of deuterium (and tritium) atoms burned by 14 MeV neutrons spawned by the burning was expected to vary from 5:1 to 3:1, a standardization derived from Mike,[10] while for these estimations, the ratio of 3:1 was predominantly used in ISRINEX. After the explosion, the wind spread radioactive particles east, affecting several inhabited atolls, including Rongelap, Utirik, and Ailinginae. In Mike, the fallout correctly landed north of the inhabited area but, in the 1954 Bravo test, there was a large amount of wind shear, and the wind that was blowing north the day before the test steadily veered towards the east. The fallout levels attributed to the Castle Bravo test are the highest in history. Kunkle, Thomas, and Bryon Ristvet, Castle Bravo: Fifty Years of Legend and Lore: A Guide to Offsite Radiation Exposure. Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Defense Threat Reduction Information Analysis Center, January 2013. Puede que nunca hayas odo hablar del desastre nuclear de Castle Bravo que fue 1000 veces ms poderoso que Hiroshima, pero en el vdeo de hoy te pondremos al. "Castle Series, 1954. Defense Nuclear Agency Report DNA 6035F (1 April 1982). At hoje, os EUA sozinhos j realizaram 1.054 testes nucleares. In 1983, the U.S. and the Marshall Islands signed a Compact of Free Association, which allowed the Marshall Islands to become independent in 1986. Plants and trees absorb potassium as part of the normal biological process, but will also readily absorb caesium if present, being of the same group on the periodic table, and therefore very similar chemically. ", Embassy of the United States Majuro-Marshall Islands. Castle Bravo foi a maior detonao nuclear dos EUA e tambm o pior acidente nuclear daquele pas. The Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb in 1949 in Kazakhstan, and went on to test in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Ukraine as well. The Castle Bravo device weighed approximately 23,500 pounds. [21]:541 It was expected that the lithium-6 isotope would absorb a neutron from the fissioning plutonium and emit an alpha particle and tritium in the process, of which the latter would then fuse with the deuterium and increase the yield in a predicted manner. The reaction to the test demonstrated the growing influence of public opinion on nuclear policy. At the time, it was the most powerful artificial explosion in human historybut it wasn't supposed to be. One crewmember died several months later; the cause of his death remains disputed. The energy required by the spark plug to counteract the compression of the fusion fuel was lower than the primary's yield because coupling of the primary's energy in the hohlraum is accompanied by losses due to the difference between the X-ray fireball and the hohlraum temperatures. The spark plug weighed about 18kg, and its initial firing yielded 0.6 kilotonnes of TNT (2.5TJ). SHRIMP's tapering and its mounting to the hohlraum apparently made the whole secondary assembly resemble the body of a shrimp. Boron was used at many locations in this dry system; it has a high cross-section for the absorption of slow neutrons, which fission 235U and 239Pu, but a low cross-section for the absorption of fast neutrons, which fission 238U. The irradiated fish brought home by the vessel entered the Japanese market, causing a panic and straining US-Japanese relations. . [21]:542 The official US position had been that the growth in the strength of atomic bombs was not accompanied by an equivalent growth in radioactivity released, and they denied that the crew was affected by radioactive fallout. Bravo was over 1,000 more times powerful than "Little Boy." Bravo used a device called "Shrimp" which used lithium deuteride as its fuel. It was assembled by plutonium rings and had a hollow volume inside that measured about 0.5cm in diameter. These losses were associated with material's properties like back-scattering, Tamper is the metal cladding encasing the secondary, and it is also termed, Not to be confused with the function of the fusion tamper. The US bomb tested near John Anjain's (right) home in the Marshall Islands in 1954 was 1,000 times stronger than at Hiroshima, and left his wife and kids with . Castle Bravo's yield was 15 megatonnes of TNT . Approximately an hour and a half after the Castle Bravo test, fallout reached a Japanese fishing boat named Daigo Fukury Maru or Fifth Lucky Dragon, located 80 miles east of the test site. A Japanese fishing boat, Daigo Fukury Maru (Lucky Dragon No.5), came in direct contact with the fallout, which caused many of the crew to grow ill due to radiation sickness. At the time, it was the most powerful artificial explosion in history. It is one of the most closely guarded secrets of a multistage thermonuclear weapon. And it almost killed them all. Una de las pruebas ms devastadoras fue la llamada operacin Castle Bravo, lanzada sobre el atoln Bikini el 1 de marzo de 1954, en la que se deton una bomba de hidrgeno con una potencia de 15 megatones, 1.000 veces superior a la bomba de Hiroshima. [63], In 2013, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency published Castle Bravo: Fifty Years of Legend and Lore. The U.S. established a $150 million compensation trust fund. The Bravo test used a device called Shrimp, which relied on lithium deuteride as its fuel. This secondary assembly device contained the lithium deuteride fusion fuel in a stainless-steel canister. 1,000 times stronger than the bomb that decimated Hiroshima, Castle Bravo caused immediate and lasting damage in the atoll and to the surrounding islands. The designers of Castle Bravo seriously miscalculated the yield of the device, resulting in critical radiation contamination. By tapering the secondary, the hohlraum could be shaped as a cylinder in its aft section obviating the need to machine the radiation case to a parabola at both ends. Mushroom cloud from the Operation Castle Bravo nuclear explosion in the Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Castle Bravo Crater. The inhabitants of the islands were not evacuated until three days later and suffered radiation sickness. The explosion yielded 15 megatons, more than two and a half times what scientists had expected, making it the largest bomb ever exploded by the United States. They considered only the lithium-6 isotope in the lithium-deuteride secondary to be reactive; the lithium-7 isotope, accounting for 60% of the lithium content, was assumed to be inert. However, many Marshallese and environmental activists dispute this figure. The radiation case had a parabolic end, which housed the COBRA primary that was employed to create the conditions needed to start the fusion reaction, and its other end was a cylinder, as also seen in Bravo's declassified film. The death toll would have been unbeleivable. Theo tnh ton ca cc nh khoa hc lm vic trong K hoch 4.1, c th phng x pht tn t v n Castle Bravo lan n Australia, Nht, n . Like Bravo, Romeo's explosive power far exceeded original projections - in fact it did so by an even larger factor, almost tripling the best guess yield. This medium was a polystyrene plastic foam filling, extruded or impregnated with a low-molecular-weight hydrocarbon (possibly methane gas), which turned to a low-Z plasma from the X-rays, and along with channeling radiation it modulated the ablation front on the high-Z surfaces; it "tamped"[Note 7] the sputtering effect that would otherwise "choke" radiation from compressing the secondary. Test 147. SHRIMP used lithium deuteride (LiD), which is solid at room temperature; Ivy Mike used cryogenic liquid deuterium (D2), which required elaborate cooling equipment. I looked around in a daze; I was totally at a loss. This was part of Operation Castle, a series of thermonuclear tests. Since the ablative process takes place on both walls of the radiation channel, a numerical estimate made with ISRINEX (a thermonuclear explosion simulation program) suggested that the uranium tamper also had a thickness of 2.5cm, so that an equal pressure would be applied to both walls of the hohlraum. The explosion left a crater on the ocean floor with a diameter of 6,500 feet and a depth of 250 feet. The SHRIMP was at least in theory and in many critical aspects identical in geometry to the RUNT and RUNT II devices later proof-fired in Castle Romeo and Castle Yankee respectively. The SHRIMP shortly before installation in its shot cab. He said, I think that the one lesson we have to learn is that because the weapons have such power we have entered a new era. The device yielded 15 megatons of energy, over twice its expected yield, and although it was the most powerful . The publication of the Bravo fallout analysis was a militarily sensitive issue, with Joseph Rotblat possibly deducing the staging nature of the Castle Bravo device by studying the ratio and presence of tell-tale isotopes, namely uranium-237, present in the fallout. [56][failed verification] Populations neighboring the test site were exposed to high levels of radiation resulting in mild radiation sickness of many (nausea, vomiting, diarrhea). The ring lenses reduced weapon's external diameter by making the HE layer thinner, and their simultaneity of shock wave emergence was considerably higher compared to previous hyperboloid lenses, enabling better and more accurate compression (LA-1632, table 4.1). [33], Coordinates: 114150N 1651619E / 11.69722N 165.27194E / 11.69722; 165.27194. The mushroom cloud formed after the detonation grew to nearly four-and-a-half miles wide and reached a height of 130,000 feet six . Ring Lenses were used in conjunction with 1E23 type bridge-wire detonators. At the same time, the angular anisotropy increases as the atomic number of the scatterer material is reduced. #nuclear #castlebravo #nuke #thermonuclear #nuke #explosion #nucleartestUpscaled Studio is dedicated to the restoration of. Natural lithium is a mixture of lithium-6 and lithium-7 isotopes (with 7.5% of the former). [46] A breakdown in her engine systems, namely a cracked cylinder liner, slowed Patapsco to one-third of her full speed, and when the Castle Bravo detonation took place, she was still about 180 to 195 nautical miles east of Bikini. Test 123. The Castle Bravo device was housed in a cylinder that weighed 23,500 pounds (10.7t) and measured 179.5 inches (456cm) in length and 53.9 inches (137cm) in diameter. He warned, No country, no people, however powerful they might be, are safe from destruction if this competition in weapons of mass destruction and cold war continues.. Castle Bravo was the first in a series of high-yield thermonuclear weapon design tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Castle. Test Height and Type: Barge shot (14 feet above surface) Yield: 11 Mt. To reduce excessive loading of the joint, especially during deployment of the weapon, the forward section of the secondary (i.e. Martin, Edwin J. and Richard H. Rowland. Twenty-three crew members of the Japanese fishing vessel Daigo Fukury Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. [33] The report is a guide to off-site radiation exposures, a narrative history, and a guide to primary historical references concerning the Castle Bravo test. The compression factor of the fusion fuel and its adiabatic compression energy determined the minimal energy required for the spark plug to counteract the compression of the fusion fuel and the tamper's momentum. [22]:185. [23]:16 The exception to this was the MK-15 ZOMBIE that used a 93.5% enriched fission jacket. This made the use of a higher mass of the then scarce fusion fuel in the rear end of the secondary assembly ineffective and the overall design wasteful. [13][14][0.08 m?? [18]:111[16]:9 The final wall-temperature, which corresponds to energy of the wall-reradiated X-rays to the secondary's pusher, also drops due to losses from the hohlraum material itself. The explosion left a crater 6,500 feet (2,000m) in diameter and 250 feet (76m) in depth. This was done with the introduction of the channel filleran optical element used as a refractive medium,[19]:279 also encountered as random-phase plate in the ICF laser assemblies. March 1, 2014 marks the 60th anniversary of the Castle Bravo nuclear test, the largest and most devastating nuclear test ever conducted by the U.S. At 15-megatons, this single blast at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands was 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It was 1,000 times more destructive than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It was compared to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Castle Bravo test was frequently part of the plots of numerous Japanese media, especially in relation to Japan's most widely recognized media icon, Godzilla. The Castle Bravo Nuclear Test Was One of the United States' Deadliest by Caleb Larson Follow @calebmlarson on Twitter L For nuclear scientists, 1950s America was a dizzyingly exciting time to be . Therefore, hohlraum liners require the use of copper (or, as in other devices, gold or aluminium), as the absorption probability increases with the value of Zeff of the scatterer. and that the reactor four in chernobyl melted down and produced a death toll nearing 60,000. First, radiation drops by the square of the distance, hence radiation coupling is relatively poor in the aftermost sections of the secondary. The Castle Bravo test featured "Shrimp," a 23,500 pound "light body" device that was an evolution of Ivy Mike, the first American thermonuclear hydrogen bomb that was the product of Teller. Describes how the island of rongelap was destroyed in 1954 when the united states detonated the largest nuclear weapon, castle bravo, with a thunderous clap. It is shown in the second episode when he meets Clint, a pawnshop owner that tries to sell child pornography to Frank Castle. The successful test rendered obsolete the cryogenic design used by Ivy Mike and its weaponized derivative, the JUGHEAD, which was slated to be tested as the initial Castle Yankee. Residents returned home in 1957, but were evacuated by the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior in 1985 due to concerns about lingering levels of radiation. The United States remains officially responsible for the security and defense of the Marshall Islands, but the Marshallese have complete sovereignty over their foreign relations. (1982), 215, 227, and 244, and assumed population doses of 1000 and 2000 person-rem per cancer and cancer death respectively based on Health Risks . [medical citation needed] The islanders received compensation from the U.S. government, relative to how much contamination they received, beginning in 1956; by 1995 the Nuclear Claims Tribunal reported that it had awarded $43.2 million, nearly its entire fund, to 1,196 claimants for 1,311 illnesses. Measurements taken after Patapsco had returned to Pearl Harbor suggested an exposure range of 0.18 to 0.62 R/hr. 8 years into the U.S Marshall Island tests, the Bravo device was the most powerful bomb the military had ever devised. Los Alamos National Laboratory responded to this indication with a follow-up enriched version of the RUNT scaled down to a 3/4 scale radiation-implosion system called the SHRIMP. The Jetter cycle is a combination of reactions involving lithium, deuterium, and tritium. Because the structural foam holding the secondary in place within the casing was doped with 10B,[6]:179 the secondary was compressed more highly, at a cost of some radiated neutrons. This was the spark plug, a tritium-boosted fission device. There was a tendency for fallout/debris to remain in tropical latitudes, with incursions into the temperate regions associated with meteorological disturbances of the predominantly zonal flow. [8], The device was called SHRIMP, and had the same basic configuration (radiation implosion) as the Ivy Mike wet device, except with a different type of fusion fuel. Any other major supporting structure would interfere to radiation transfer from the primary to the secondary and complex vibrational behavior. - verification needed] Copper possesses excellent reflecting properties, and its low cost, compared to other reflecting materials like gold, made it useful for mass-produced hydrogen weapons. The U.S. evacuated the inhabitants of Rongelap two days after the test. Since there were also technical concerns that high-Z tamper material would mix rapidly with the relatively low-density fusion fuelleading to unacceptably large radiation lossesthe stand-off gap also acted as a buffer to mitigate the unavoidable and undesirable Taylor mixing. 358x480, 30 K; 640x768, 70 K; 1024x854, 92 K. Fallout Over the Marshall Islands. Surrounding the fusion-fuelspark-plug assembly was the uranium tamper with a standoff air-gap about 0.9cm wide that was to increase the tamper's momentum, a levitation technique used as early as Operation Sandstone and described by physicist Ted Taylor as hammer-on-the-nail-impact. The neutronicity of the fusion reactions harnessed by the fusion tamper would dramatically increase the yield of the device. The U.S. conducted its largest nuclear detonation ever, Castle Bravo, at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954. At the same time, the rocket effect on the surface of the hohlraum would force the radiation case to speed outwards. The Bravo Crater is located at .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}114150N 1651619E / 11.69722N 165.27194E / 11.69722; 165.27194. There was no actual basis for it. By the early 2000s, the tribunal lacked the necessary funds to disperse settlement payments fully. The nuclear tests took place right after World War II, but the craters remain to this day. La operacin Bravo tuvo graves consecuencias ya que los . por Cristina Bermejo. As part of a series of top-secret nuclear tests codenamed Operation Castle, on 1 March 1954 the US military carried out a trial known as "Castle Bravo", detonating a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb . The Soviet researchers, led by Andrei Sakharov, developed and tested their first TellerUlam device in 1955. Among those was the March 1, 1954 Castle Bravo H-bomb test, which reached a yield of 15 megatons, 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Nagasaki in 1945. The Soviet Union had previously used lithium deuteride in its Sloika design (known as the "Joe-4" in the U.S.), in 1953. "Kindness is life, cruelty is death." 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On March 1, 1954 exactly 69 years ago Wednesday the military detonated this bomb at Bikini Atoll, a small . Aluminium was used to drastically reduce the bomb's weight and simultaneously provided sufficient radiation confinement time to raise yield, a departure from the heavy stainless steel casing (304L or MIM 316L) employed by contemporary weapon-projects. The test came in the form of a dry fuel . Sixty years later, the Marshall Islands still bears the marks of the Operation . 1 Louis Slotin: 1946, May 21 . U.S. Air Force Lookout Mountain Laboratory Joint Task Force 7. Its plasma-pressure is confined in the boiled-off sections of the tamper and the radiation case so that material from neither of these two walls can enter the radiation channel that has to be open for the radiation transit.[10]. Fred N. Mortensen, John M. Scott, and Stirling A. Colgate", "LANL: Los Alamos Science: LA Science No. Today, scholars have criticized Project 4.1 for not obtaining informed consent from the Marshallese. All parts of the tamper were similarly locked together to provide structural support and rigidity to the secondary assembly. Within hours, the atoll was covered with a fine, white, powder-like substance. In an additional unexpected event, albeit one of far less consequence, X-rays traveling through line-of-sight (LOS) pipes caused a small second fireball at Station 1200 with a yield of 1 kiloton of TNT (4.2TJ). [11]:281 The mixture cost about 4.54USD/g at that time. The weapon, like most contemporary thermonuclear weapons at that time, bore the same codename as the secondary component. [42] It was also agreed that the victims would not be given Hibakusha status. The proposed weight reduction (from TX-17's 42,000 pounds (19,000kg) to TX-21's 25,000 pounds (11,000kg)) would provide the Air Force with a much more versatile deliverable gravity bomb. Mesmo aps o desastre, os EUA continuaram a conduzir experimentos nucleares nas redondezas. DTRIAC SR 12-001. COBRA was Los Alamos' most recent product of design work on the "new principles" of the hollow core. In August 1946, the city put the number of dead and missing at one year after the bombing at 122,338. The team conducting the study did not ask the Marshallese for their consent or even explain to them that a study was being conducted, historian April Brown wrote in a 2014 article for Arms Control Today. the tests included the 1954 Castle Bravo bomb which remains the . [33] The report focuses on the circumstances that resulted in radioactive exposure of the uninhabited atolls, and makes no attempt to address in detail the effects on or around Bikini Atoll. [6]:54:237[9]. The Marshallese were told they were being treated for their various illnesses, but rarely was a translator present to explain what tests were being conducted or for what purpose. In terms of energy released (usually measured in TNT equivalence), Castle Bravo was about 1,000 times more powerful than each of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. (US Department of Energy / Wikimedia Commons) "Nationalism," the new issue of Jacobin is out now. [6]:317) The plastic's low molecular weight is unable to implode the secondary's mass. Though organized as a secret test, Castle Bravo quickly became an international incident, prompting calls for a ban on the atmospheric testing of thermonuclear devices. (The Castle Koon MORGENSTERN device did not use 10B in its design; as a result, the intense neutron flux from its RACER IV primary predetonated the spherical fission spark plug, which in turn "cooked" the fusion fuel, leading to an overall poor compression. 375x250, 15 K; 640x427, 39 K; 1024x683, 55 K; 1600x1068, 137 K; 1600x1068 (higher quality), 272 K. Go to the test page: Castle Bravo In 1949, a Nagasaki City committee estimated . As Wellerstein notes, Castle Bravo helped popularize the term fallout to describe the radioactive particles caused by a nuclear explosion. While the truth of these allegations remains unproven, historians generally agree that the effects of Castle Bravo were in fact accidental. As SHRIMP, along with the RUNT I and ALARM CLOCK, were to be high-yield shots required to assure the thermonuclear emergency capability, their fusion fuel may have been spiked with additional tritium, in the form of 6LiT. If that death toll seems unreal, consider the scale of the radiation involved. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. It was assumed that the lithium-7 would absorb one neutron, producing lithium-8, which decays (through beta decay into beryllium-8) to a pair of alpha particles on a timescale of nearly a second, vastly longer than the timescale of nuclear detonation. Radioactive fallout was spread eastward onto the inhabited Rongelap and Rongerik atolls, which were evacuated[34] 48 hours after the detonation. BettmannDuring the 1954 Castle Bravo test over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, America executed its largest nuclear detonation, a thousand times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. issued a number of (initially classified) reports, National Cancer Institute experts reported, a former public advocate for the Tribunal, In a 2002 interview with AHF, physicist Ralph Lapp, https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2013_03/No-Promised-Land-The-Shared-Legacy-of-the-Castle-Bravo-Nuclear-Test%20, http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb459/, http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb459/docs/doc%2018%20SR-12-001-CASTLE-BRAVO%20(1).pdf, http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/Reading_Room/NCB/DNA6035F_Castle_Series_1954.pdf, https://www.ctbto.org/specials/testing-times/1-march-1954-castle-bravo/, Supreme Court: No review of award for US nuclear weapons tests, http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2014/02/27-castle-bravo-largest-us-nuclear-explosion-rowberry, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tgrsxiOXaE, Marshall Islands Nuclear Lawsuit Reopens Old Wounds, http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/02/28/castle-bravo-at-60/, http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/11/27/a-ground-zero-forgotten/, Brown, April L. No Promised Land: The Shared Legacy of the Castle Bravo Nuclear Test., Burr, William.
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