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CASTLE IN THE SKY

When the US detonated the test bomb Castle Bravo on 1 March 1954 at Bikini Atoll, its yield was more than 2.5 times what had been predicted. Radiation from the blast spread as far as Australia, India and the US mainland, with traces detected in Europe.

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