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To: The Great RJ

I believe one test, the bomb strength was underestimated or it detonated too soon. Gave everybody a good dose.


27 posted on 10/22/2014 3:08:38 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59

That was the Castle Bravo test in 1954. The physicist miscalculated the yield by at least half; the actual yield was 15 Mt (largest nuke in US history) instead of the estimated 4 to 8 Mt. They screwed up on how an isotope of lithium would react. A Japanese fishing got irradiated.


30 posted on 10/23/2014 5:48:19 AM PDT by C19fan
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