Yesterday I posted about Alex Wellersteins piece about the BRAVO - TopicsExpress



          

Yesterday I posted about Alex Wellersteins piece about the BRAVO hydrogen bomb test which went off sixty years ago today on 1 March 1954. The blast on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands was the largest US nuclear test in history. The explosive yield of 15 megatons was 1000 times that of the weapon that destroyed Hiroshima and nearly three times the 6 megatons that its planners expected. It turned out that the National Security Archive acknowledged the anniversary by posting on its web site a selection of documents about the BRAVO shot and its consequence. You can access them at
Posted on: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 03:20:20 +0000

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