Description: Castle Bravo was the code name for the first test of a dry fuel hydrogen bomb by the United States. The explosion was much larger than expected due to a design error, resulting in ...

Nuclear tests continued in the Marshall Islands. On March 1, 1954--exactly 70 years ago--the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb was detonated. The flippancy of the bomb’s name greatly offends me.

Ivy Mike was the world's first hydrogen bomb and had a yield of 10.4 megatons ... within four days. Castle Bravo, detonated on February 28, 1954, was the first and largest of the Castle series ...

This true doomsday weapon was a response to the American high-yield nuclear weapon used in the infamous Castle Bravo test in 1954 ... involving the fusion of hydrogen isotopes.