Castle Bravo

with a 10 megaton payload for destroying towns to the 12,000 megaton payload of Castle Romeo. Thoughts of destroying wildlife was a concern to many political leader so they moved the Nuclear test to islands on the coast to ensure maximum protection of people and wildlife; the original test sites were done in government owned lands in what some people call Area 51. The largest United States Hydrogen bomb was the Castle Bravo, due to the massive size of the bomb it had to be built on site inside a…

Parable for the Nuclear Age is written and directed by Dennis OʻRourke. The film was released in 1986 and won the Peace Film Award in Berlin later that year. The film gives a well-balanced insight on the impacts on the indigenous communities from the Castle Bravo nuclear testing of 1954, in the Marshal Islands. The film shows multiple perspectives of the event from personal accounts of the indigenous people, to military personal, and even US political leaders. Declassified military footage of…

Similarly, this scene is a direct metaphor for Castle Bravo, which was a hydrogen bomb test enacted by the United States which was one thousand times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Unfortunately, a fishing boat, the Lucky Dragon No. 5, was caught in the blast radius of the classified Castle Bravo test site. Twenty-three members of the crew were hospitalized and were treated for an acute radiation, and one member…

were going to rout the Soviets. The Soviet Commander, Vladimir Omin Viarri made a fateful decision...he decided to nuke the city. He chose a small warhead that would only destroy the capital city of Dark Magic. However, much like the US test of Castle Bravo in 1954, the Soviets under estimated the yield and the fallout. The bomb destroyed the city, and it's fallout was so vast that it completely blanketed the entire country with radiation. The whole country was evacuated, all that survived…

When the atom bomb was invented by the United States the people believed that it would be a savior to the war that was occurring, but fate would have the bomb be a global phenomenon as the world stood in awe of its catastrophic power. Having such a weapon that would most certainly win the war for your country was an amazing thought, and of course many country’s believed that too, which inevitably led to the cold war. What were to follow was a race to develop these bombs many of the world’s…

All through the Cold War, the United States depended on nuclear weapons to not only avert an attack by the Soviet Union and its allies but also to prevent the eruption of a global war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Cold War rivalry drew the United States into a drawn out engagement with world affairs, unprecedented in the country’s history, that proceeds to the present day. The stakes of the Cold War were perilously high. Nuclear war, which jeopardized the survival of human…

This became known as the arms race. America had the advantage over the Soviet Union; on November 1, 1952 America dropped the first hydrogen bomb code named Castle Bravo. After Russia caught wind of the experiment they immediately began purist of their own weapon of mass destruction. In spite of the tests America and Russia had a limited arsenal to test. The nukes main job during the arms race was a deterrent toward…

The Marshall Islands are an island country in the Pacific Ocean consisting of 29 atolls and five islands. Ebeye island, also known as the “Slum of the Pacific”, is the most populous and polluted island of Kwajalein atoll in the Marshal islands. The rising seas levels is a big concern because it not only washed up pollutants and trashes onto the land but also cause floods which threaten people’s home and their belongings (Barker, 2013). Ebeye is also known for its frequent power outages that can…

In terms of the economy, the amount of defense spending of the United States’ during the Cold War Era was significantly smaller compared to the spending during World War I and II, with the second World War being the largest of the three. With that being stated, at the end of World War II, defense spending sharply decreased, but increased again in 1947, being the marked beginning of the Cold War, and proceeded to fluctuate, notably in the early 1950s signifying the Korean War and from 1955-1975…

Codenamed the “Manhattan Project,” the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War 2 was the single-biggest military construction project in history (The Atomic Bombings, n.d.). Responsible for approximately 200,000 casualties, the atomic bomb left a path of total destruction and devastation in these two major Japanese cities (The Atomic Bombings, n.d.). It was the only time nuclear weapons had been used on civilization, which gave us a true idea of what the effects…