“Smart, slick and exciting as hell. Castle Bravo is one great read. Karna Small Bodman has an insider’s feel for the corridors of power. As you quickly turn the pages, you will find yourself wondering if the book is truth or fiction.
"Bravo is the about the legacy of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. The Castle Bravo test in 1954, along with 8 years of previous nuclear tests, left the islands with terrible problems of nuclear contamination.
A short history by Katner Tima detailing his experience surviving the fallout from the Castle Bravo nuclear test, which was conducted by the U.S. government in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954.
... Castle Bravo was a closely held secret. The Castle Bravo device, code-named Shrimp, also incorporated another classified feature. The initial fission bomb and the lithium-6 deuteride fusion fuel were both placed within a casing of ...
... Castle Series, p. 32. Martin and Rowland, Castle Series, pp. 35–36. Hacker, Elements of Controversy, pp. 135–136 ... Bravo, p. 73. Kunkle and Ristvet, Castle Bravo, p. 76. Kunkle and Ristvet, Castle Bravo, p. 70. Kunkle and Ristvet ...
... Castle Bravo. H-bombs like Castle Bravo were, quite literally, an entirely different order of nuclear weapon than the relatively simple atomic bombs used and tested less than a decade earlier. Atomic bombs, like Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and ...