Half-Life Histories - Season 1 Episode 3 Castle Bravo Disaster - A "Second Hiroshima"
At the time, it was the most powerful artificial explosion in human history…but it wasn’t supposed to be. On March 1st, 1954, the United States detonated the country’s first thermonuclear or fusion bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a small coral reef and 23 islands almost equidistant from Australia, Japan, and Hawaii. In the days and weeks following the blast, the United States would pay out millions of dollars in settlements, thousands of islanders would be evacuated and re-evacuated, and the Japanese public would deem the test “a second Hiroshima,” a comparison no citizen would dare make lightly.
Year: 2026
Genre: Documentary
Country:
Studio: YouTube
Director: Kyle Hill
Cast: Kyle Hill
Crew: Kyle Hill (Director), Kyle Hill (Producer), Kyle Hill (Writer)
First Air Date: Nov 27, 2020
Last Air date: Apr 18, 2026
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 30 Episode
Runtime: 26 minutes
IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0.00 users
Popularity: 0.07
Language: English
Keyword : radiation, nuclear radiation, radioactivity, nuclear accident, chernobyl disaster (1986), nuclear disaster, hiroshima, fukushima, robert oppenheimer, radiation exposure
Season
Season 1
Episode
Demon Core - The True Story
The Elephant's Foot - Corpse of Chernobyl
Castle Bravo Disaster - A "Second Hiroshima"
Radioactive Autopsy - The Cecil Kelley Criticality Accident
What if you put your head in a particle accelerator?
SL-1: America's First Nuclear Disaster
Something is Happening at Chernobyl…
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster - Epidemic of Ghosts
Goiânia Accident - South America's Nuclear Tragedy
Why are Chernobyl's Radiation Rates Rising?
Will Russia's War Change Chernobyl?
Radiation Killed Douglas Crofut. No One Knows Why.
Three Mile Island - What Really Happened
The Time We Nuked Five Men to Prove a Point
History's Worst Software Error
Did Nuclear Fallout Kill Hollywood's Biggest Star?
The Lia Radiological Accident - Nuclear Bonfire
Did a Nuclear Accident Just Go Viral?
Why isn’t Hiroshima a Nuclear Wasteland?
Oppenheimer's "Terrible Possibility" - Atmospheric Ignition
What if you put your hand in a particle accelerator?
How Nine Nuclear Saboteurs Changed WWII
The Radium Worked Until His Jaw Fell Off
The Time We Asked Carl Sagan to Nuke the Moon
The Kramatorsk Radiation Accident - Nuclear Apartment
Russia's Demon Core - Sarov Criticality Accident
The Most Radioactive Man in History - Wood River Accident
When You Don’t “Drop and Run” - Cobalt-60 Accidents
Tokaimura Tragedy - History's Worst Criticality Accident
Windscale Fire - First Public Nuclear Disaster