![[Castle ROMEO test]](http://www.americanschoolofdefense.com/images/romeo1s.gif) |
Castle ROMEO test [160x120 Quicktime MOV, 2.1 MB] The Castle ROMEO test yielded 11 megatons. It was detonated from a barge in the BRAVO crater. |
|
Castle ROMEO test [160x120 Quicktime MOV, 2.1 MB] The Castle ROMEO test yielded 11 megatons. It was detonated from a barge in the BRAVO crater. |
![[Ivy KING]](http://www.americanschoolofdefense.com/images/king01s.gif) |
Ivy KING detonation [160x120 Quicktime MOV, 3.1 MB] Ivy KING was an air-drop of the "Super-Oralloy" all-fission bomb, with a yield of 500 kilotons. |
![[Castle BRAVO test]](http://www.americanschoolofdefense.com/images/bravo1s.gif) |
Castle BRAVO test [160x120 Quicktime MOV, 2.7 MB] The Castle BRAVO test on March 1, 1954, yielded 15 megatons, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States. By accident the inhabited atolls of Rongelap, Rongerik and Utirik were contaminated with fallout, as was the Japanese fishing trawler Fukuryu Maru or Lucky Dragon. |