Oakmont’s Norman Panting witnessed the detonation of the Bravo hydrogen bomb on March 1, 1954. It remains the most powerful device ever exploded by the United States. Dr. Norman Panting arose at 4 a.m ...

Dozens of nuclear tests were carried out by the US in the Pacific between 1946 and 1958. The largest of these was the detonation of the Castle Bravo device on March 1, 1954. It was 1,000 times more ...

The Operation Castle group of tests sought to validate dropping new, high-yield thermonuclear weapons from the air. However, the technology involved in making the bombs was complex and unproven, so ...

Later this month I will return to Japan for the annual Bikini commemoration and the Gensuikyō, or Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs, annual conference. There won’t be a bikini fashion ...

In the South Pacific, there was once a small patch of land that may have seemed at times to be as close to paradise on earth as one could get. It was likely similar to what people think of when they ...

There are few places more peaceful than a Pacific island. At 6:45 on a March morning in 1954, that peace was shattered by the largest nuclear test in American history: Operation Bravo. The Bravo test ...

There has been talk in the national security community lately about the so-called “merits” of resuming underground or even atmospheric nuclear weapons tests. I think this would be a grave mistake for ...

There is more to know about Strauss’s role in the devastating aftermath of the Castle Bravo test in 1954. Ad Policy Robert Downey Jr. poses with his award for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a ...