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Castle Bravo exploded with 2.5 times its predicted force. ☢️
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Science Gone WrongAug 18, 2026

Castle Bravo exploded with 2.5 times its predicted force. ☢️

Castle Bravo exploded with 2.5 times its predicted force. ☢️ . . . On March 1, 1954, the device detonated over Bikini Atoll with a yield of 15 megatons. Radioactive fallout reached inhabited islands and the Lucky Dragon No. 5 fishing boat. An isotope scientists expected to remain largely inert helped turn the test into America’s largest nuclear blast.

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CTBTO, 2014, 'Castle Bravo: The Largest U.S. Nuclear Explosion'

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