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Castle Bravo es el nombre clave de la mayor explosión nuclear realizada por los Estados Unidos durante la Operación Castle. La bomba, de tipo termonuclear, medía 4,56 m de largo por 1,37 m de diámetro.
Castle Bravo is the sixth largest nuclear explosion in history, exceeded by the Soviet tests of Tsar Bomba at approximately 50 Mt, Test 219 at 24.2 Mt, and three other (Test 147, Test 173 and Test 174) ≈20 Mt Soviet tests in 1962 at Novaya Zemlya.
29 de feb. de 2024 · Castle Bravo and its consequences sparked antinuclear protests around the world, raising concerns that Washington was carrying out racist policies.
1 de mar. de 2022 · Las Islas Marshall fueron el campo estadounidense de pruebas nucleares durante la Guerra Fría. En el archipiélago del Pacífico, el atolón Bikini vio la explosión de su mayor bomba termonuclear, Castle Bravo. El deterioro causado perpetuó la dependencia del país hacia Washington.
1 de mar. de 2017 · On March 1, 1954, the United States carried out its largest nuclear detonation, “Castle Bravo,” at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The Bravo shot was the first test of Operation Castle, a series of thermonuclear tests.
27 de feb. de 2014 · Scientists were shocked when Castle Bravo produced an astounding 15 megaton yield, making it 1,000 times as powerful as the U.S. nuclear weapons used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
The Castle Bravo test produced the highest fallout levels in history. The detonation produced an explosion approximately 2.5 times the predicted 6.0 megatons, equal to 15 Mt of TNT.
