This movie has got YT giving me lots of Atomic Bomb videos to watch...
The Castle Bravo Disaster - A "Second Hiroshima"
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew064gt2thYThis is a very thoughtful video. A couple of additions:
Castle Bravo wasn't the first US thermonuclear (fusion) test. The US detonated the first true fusion explosion on Nov. 2, 1952 in the Enewetak Atoll. It was called Ivy Mike and it yielded 10.4 Megatons. It demonstrated the Teller/Ulam Principle (which your video clip showed simply), which made workable H-bombs feasible. But, Ivy Mike wasn't a weapon: its thermonuclear fuel was 6,000 liters of liquid deuterium, cooled to cryogenic temperatures. It weighed more than 60 tons. Castle Bravo, shown in your clip, wasn't an actual weapon, but it was a weaponizable design, using dry fuel (Li6 Deuteride). The first US hydrogen bomb dropped from an aircraft was the Cherokee test (3.8 Megatons) over the Bikini Atoll in May 1956.
Here is a color clip of Castle Bravo from the movie, "Trinity and Beyond - The Atomic Bomb Movie." This film is brilliant--a work of art:
https://www.facebook.com/CTBTO/videos/operation-castle-bravo-1954-reloaded/10154046647629047/Second: As your clip points out, Castle Bravo's fallout caused huge riots in Japan, and resulted in the "Gojira" movie, which was shown in the US as "Godzilla," starring Raymond Burr.. But, the original uncensored Japanese release didn't have Burr (his scenes were added for "Godzilla"), was considerably longer, and had a pointed message: Irresponsible US testing of atomic weapons not only awakened this Jurassic-era monster from aeons of slumber, it grew him to gigantic size--and made him immortal. It's vastly better than "Godzilla."
The two best Hiroshima movies, IMO, are "Hiroshima" (1995), a joint Japanese/Canadian production, and "Day One" (1989) featuring a great performance by Brian Dennehy.
