How a U.S. hydrogen bomb accidentally turned a Pacific island into jello
An American hydrogen bomb test in 1954 threw up an estimated "two hundred billion pounds of coral reef and the sea floor," after the weapons yield turned out to be nearly three times what U.S. scientists had expected. The test, called 'Castle Bravo,' took place on the Bikini Atoll, a coral reef…
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