Aerial footage of the Castle Bravo shot on March 1, 1954.
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Keywords: Bravo Test, CTBT, Lucky Dragon, Marshall Islands, nuclear testing, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons tests
Topics: Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons
Walter Pincus
Walter Pincus has been writing about nuclear weapons, nuclear testing, and national security for more than 60 years, first as a Washington Post... Read More
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Walter Pincus, You reopen so many old alarms, as I grew up in Las Vegas during the above-ground testing days and later covered downwinders, ranchers, atomic vets, human radiation experimental subjects, the Marshal Islanders…while at the Las Vegas Sun newspaper. We never forget, nor should we.