180K views · 997 reactions | Beginning in 1945 the United States conducted 210 above-ground nuclear tests, documented on film. Now, the footage is being preserved by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and analyzed for scientific data. (from 2019) | CBS Sunday Morning | Facebook

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In 1954, a U.S. Air Force B-57B Canberra aircraft filmed Castle Bravo, the most powerful nuclear test ever carried out by the United States. The detonation took place at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands and produced a fifteen megaton explosion that was about one thousand times stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The fireball grew several miles wide, and the mushroom cloud rose more than forty miles into the sky. The unexpected strength of the blast spread dangerous radioactive fallo