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[[File: | [[File:Castle Bravo Blast.jpg|thumb|316px|Nuclear weapon test Bravo (yield 15 Mt) on Bikini Atoll. The test was part of the Operation Castle. The Bravo event was an experimental thermonuclear device surface event.]]'''Castle Bravo''' was a hydrogen bomb test by the Americans during the [[Cold War]] in Bikini Atoll and first of the operation castle nuclear tests. | ||
Initially, the bomb, known as the 'shrimp' device was set to explode at 6000 kilotons, however it was unexpected that the bomb would explode at 15000 kilotons, which is more than twice as expected and also a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb that exploded over Hiroshima during [[World War II]]. | Initially, the bomb, known as the 'shrimp' device was set to explode at 6000 kilotons, however it was unexpected that the bomb would explode at 15000 kilotons, which is more than twice as expected and also a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb that exploded over Hiroshima during [[World War II]]. |