Early on March 1, 1954, the United States exploded a hydrogen bomb, code-named Bravo, on the Pacific Ocean’s Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands.
It was the most powerful thermonuclear device ever tested by the U.S. — 1,000 times larger than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — and exposed local islanders, 28 U.S. military weather observers and 23 Japanese fishermen who happened to be near the test site aboard a tuna trawler to near-fatal amounts of radiation.
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