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To: Pecos

It was a plutonium fission detonation via implosion. Yield was around 20 kilotons (20,000 tons).

Castle Bravo was 15 megatons (15,000,000 tons)

Had the USS Arkansas been in the same location for a 15 megaton shot it would have ended up, mostly, in the stratosphere. As highly radioactive particles.


41 posted on 03/02/2015 8:53:06 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter

The USS (formerly KM) Prinz Eugen was in two of the tests at Bikini.

It survived both tests and is laying upside down at Kwajalein.

It’s clean enough for diving now.


44 posted on 03/02/2015 9:31:57 AM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: tanknetter

My late Brother in Law was in the Navy at the Bikini test explosions. He died young ... while in his fifties.


51 posted on 03/02/2015 9:51:29 AM PST by OldNavyVet (http://sunsetridgemsbiology.wikispaces.com/file/view/Darwins+Ghost.pdf)
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To: tanknetter

So it still would have been pointed straight up! (more or less)


58 posted on 03/02/2015 10:43:54 AM PST by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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