Dozens of nuclear tests were carried out by the US in the Pacific between 1946 and 1958. The largest of these was the detonation of the Castle Bravo device on March 1, 1954. It was 1,000 times more ...
In 1954, a routine scientific test in the Pacific Ocean turned into the worst radiological disaster in American history due to a catastrophic miscalculation. Operation Castle Bravo was engineered to ...
Here’s What You Need to Know: The U.S. eventually agreed to pay more than $15 million in compensation to the Fukuryu Maru survivors. Sixty-plus years ago on an island in the South Pacific, scientists ...