On March 1, 1954, a B-57B Canberra jet filmed Castle Bravo, the largest U.S. nuclear test, at Bikini Atoll, capturing its 15-megaton blast—bigger than the expected 6 megatons—as part of Operation Castle. The plane recorded the huge fireball and cloud, but the explosion’s fallout spread far, harming people nearby and a Japanese fishing crew, making the footage a key Cold War record. | Historyinmemes

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“Castle Bravo”, the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the US, captured by a B57-B Canberra(1954) flying at 30,000 feet. This was our the first test of a hydrogen bomb by the United States, conducted on March 1, 1954, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands as part of Operation Castle. It was the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States and remains infamous for its unexpected scale of destruction and fallout. The weapon was predicted to have a yield of 6 megat

1.4M views · 13K reactions | Castle Bravo, 1954—15 megatons of raw explosive force. The largest U.S. nuclear test ever conducted. What’s wild? That’s the same magnitude as the Tunguska event—a cosmic blast that flattened Siberia in 1908. Nuclear tests gave us more than fallout. They gave us insight into the terrifying power of celestial impacts. | The Randall Carlson | Facebook