Castle BRAVO Test

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Castle Bravo Test A-bomb Atomic Bombs Nuclear Radiation
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The Castle- Bravo test on March 1, 1954, yielded 15megatons, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States. By accident the inhabited atolls of Rongelap, Rongerik and Utirik were contaminated with fallout, as was the Japanese fishing trawler Fukuryu Maru or Lucky Dragon. The controversy over fallout that simmered around the Nevada Test Site erupted into international alarm.

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