Wednesday, 3 February 2021

Castle Bravo: the chilling history of the 1954 US nuclear bomb test

As part of his Half-Life series, Kyle Hill looks at one of the most controversial moments in the history of nuclear weapons: the Castle Bravo atmospheric thermonuclear test detonated over Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954. It was dubbed the "Second Hiroshima" by Japan and others outraged by the test. — Read the rest