![]() ![]() military personnel launched a case against the government in 1984, alleging that the American government had downplayed the radiation danger. government paid compensation to island residents retired U.S. The Castle Bravo test, and the harm done to the residents, triggered global protests against the testing of nuclear bombs. Some residents had to be evacuated, and the people of the Marshall Islands suffered an elevated rate of cancer. The only change is the name of Upper Volta. Russia today appears Burkina Faso with nuclear weapons. military personnel and the crew of a Japanese fishing trawler exposed to a high level of radiation, according to an article published in 2017 by the Atomic Heritage Foundation. I remember the Russian foreign policy specialist Alexander Bovin stated on Soviet television ca 1986 (when I lived in Moscow) that the USSR was Upper Volta with nuclear weapons. ![]() The yield was about two and half times greater than expected and resulted in nuclear fallout spreading for about 7,000 square miles (18,130 square kilometers) across the Pacific, leaving residents of the Marshall Islands, U.S. On Mathe United States detonated a 15 megaton nuclear weapon on the Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, in a test codenamed "Castle Bravo." It was detonated on the surface rather than being dropped by air and is the fifth most powerful nuclear weapon detonation in history. (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in new tab) The Castle Bravo nuclear detonation is the fifth most powerful nuclear weapon detonation in history. ![]() The Soviet Union eventually agreed to take down the missiles in exchange for the United States removing their nuclear missiles from Turkey. President Kennedy considered attacking the sites and ultimately ordered a naval blockade to prevent more nuclear weapons from reaching Cuba. During the crisis the Soviet Union deployed nuclear missiles to Cuba. Known simply as "test 173" this bomb never got a nickname.Īn interesting note - a few weeks after this bomb was dropped the Cuban Missile Crisis began - a crisis that brought the Soviet Union and United States to the brink of nuclear war. The fourth most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated it is about 1,270 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. 25, 1962, the Soviet Union dropped a 19.1 megaton nuke over the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. An aerial photo of a base in Cuba taken during the Cuban Missile Crisis which started just a few weeks after this nuke was dropped. ![]()
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