Operation Castle Thermonuclear Weapons
Testing Commanders Report on DVD
Operation Castle was a six-detonation test series held at the Atomic
Energy Commission's (AEC) Pacific Proving Ground in the Spring of 1954.
This test series, principally conducted at the Enewetak and Bikini Atolls
in the northwestern Marshall Islands, provided proof tests of large-yield
thermonuclear, or hydrogen, devices. Castle represented the end of a drive
for a workable thermonuclear weapon and the beginning of the refinement
of large-H-bombs into smaller and more efficient weapons.
After Castle, the U.S. could choose in a range of small tactical weapons
to large strategic weapons. From this point, weapons development programs
concentrated on producing bombs of specific nuclear weapons effects --
heat, blast, and radiation.
The Bravo event of the Castle series yielded 15 megatons, the most ever
exploded in atmospheric testing by the U.S. A scientific miscalculation
caused the yield to be about double what was expected. Also, reports indicate
that Bravo was the single worst incident of fallout exposure in all of
the U.S. atmospheric testing program.
Fallout was scattered over more than 7,000 square miles of ocean and
islands, resulting in the contamination and exposure of military, civilian
U.S. personnel working on the shot, and people of the islands who were
earlier moved to a supposedly "safe" island but received large
amounts of radiation. Acute radiation effects were observed among some
of these people.
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