When the Ocean Became a Test Site In July 1946, at the remote Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the United States co ...

HMS Stirling Castle will serve as the floating command ship for remotely operated and autonomous systems operated by the ...

Few people know the harm nuclear testing can do better than inhabitants of the Marshall Islands which was a US-administered trust territory of the United Nations from 1947 to 1986.

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 ...

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 ...

1942 - U-656 becomes the first German submarine of World War II to be sunk by Naval air (VP-82). 1954 - 1st of 6 detonations, Operation Castle nuclear test. (Source: Navy News Service) 1942 - U-656 ...