nuclear testing
An Empire State Building-Sized Nuclear Test Tower Comes Crashing Down
Today, in the middle of nowhere in the once-irradiated Nevada desert, a tower taller than the Empire State building came tumbling down. The 1,527 foot, 345 ton BREN tower was used to study the fallout from nuclear bombs like those dropped on Hiroshima...
'The Second Hiroshima': The Largest U.S. Nuclear Test Ever Hit a Japanese Fishing Vessel
On March 1, 1954, the United States tested what was the most powerful thermonuclear device in U.S. history. Castle Bravo was the first test of a dry-fuel version of the hydrogen bomb developed by Edward Teller. Bravo was unfathomably powerful, yielding...
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