On March 1, 1954, the United States conducted a secret test that went horrifyingly wrong. The operation was codenamed Castle Bravo. It was the first field test of a deployable "dry" hydrogen bomb, detonated at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Scientists expected an explosion of about 6 megatons. They were wrong. Due to a miscalculation in how lithium-7 isotopes would react, the bomb exploded with a yield of 15 megatons—more than 2.5 times larger than predicted. It remains the largest nuclea

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