Castle bravo

Making sense of the worst radiological accident in US history.

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Sixty-one years ago on an island in the South Pacific, scientists and military officers, fishermen and Marshall Islands natives observed first-hand what Armageddon would be like. And it almost killed…

The Castle Bravo test, in 1954, was much bigger than expected: the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated in US history. How did the US get their sums so wrong?

Settle in and celebrate the fact that no matter how badly you've screwed up at work, you've probably never caused an explosion that destroyed half of a city.

Castle Bravo fallout graph