Atomic Veterans Photo Album
Operation Castle, 1954
| Operation Castle, the fifth in a series of atomic tests at the Pacific Proving Ground. The pictures are from the Commanders Report, Joint Task Force 7. | Perry Island was the assembly point for the weapons and Enyu was the firing station for the first shot which became the infamous Bravo detonation. |
| The ground movement and contamination on Bikini rendered the island useless. Readings of 100 rad per hour were recorded. The firing station was relocated to the USS Estes. The effects of this disaster continue today.
| Due to a scientific snaffu this device exploded with twice the expected energy and plastered the Marshallese natives with lethal levels of fallout over two hundred miles away, many were burned by the radioactive ash. |
Twenty-eight U.S. soldiers and weathermen were trapped for hours in heavy fallout. The Bravo fallout disaster caught the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon, all the fishermen became sick and one died. Millions of tons of tuna, one of the staple foods in Japan were contaminated and had to be buried.
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