Bravo Superbomb Disaster
Nonfiction, History, Military, Nuclear Warfare, Weapons, Entertainment, Performing Arts
| Author: | Frank Zagone | ISBN: | 9781937563783 |
| Publisher: | Hillcrest Media Group, Inc. | Publication: | January 11, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Publish Green | Language: | English |
| Author: | Frank Zagone |
| ISBN: | 9781937563783 |
| Publisher: | Hillcrest Media Group, Inc. |
| Publication: | January 11, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Publish Green |
| Language: | English |
Assigned as a draftee to a hydrogen-bomb test operation in the Marshall Islands, Frank Zagone gives his account of the March 1, 1954 detonation of BRAVO, a 15 megaton superbomb, the most powerful and radiologically dirty nuclear blast in U.S. history (equivalent to 1000 Hiroshima bombs). He writes about a scientific miscalculation in the design of BRAVO that led to a runaway explosion. Radioactive fallout descended on thousands of square miles of the mid-Pacific. Marshall Islanders, Japanese fishermen, and U.S. naval ships were showered with radioactive coral ash.
Assigned as a draftee to a hydrogen-bomb test operation in the Marshall Islands, Frank Zagone gives his account of the March 1, 1954 detonation of BRAVO, a 15 megaton superbomb, the most powerful and radiologically dirty nuclear blast in U.S. history (equivalent to 1000 Hiroshima bombs). He writes about a scientific miscalculation in the design of BRAVO that led to a runaway explosion. Radioactive fallout descended on thousands of square miles of the mid-Pacific. Marshall Islanders, Japanese fishermen, and U.S. naval ships were showered with radioactive coral ash.
