Brookhaven National Laboratory (DOE)
Historical events associated with fallout from Bravo Shot – Operation Castle, and 25 years of medical findings
Report · written 1 July 1997 · released 1 July 1997
Why this matters
Brookhaven National Laboratory's account of the March 1954 Castle Bravo test, whose yield far exceeded predictions and rained fallout on the inhabited atolls of Rongelap and Utirik. It reviews a quarter century of medical follow-up on the exposed Marshallese, including thyroid disease. A sobering primary source on the human cost of atmospheric testing.
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The Nuclear Paper Trail
1954: Castle Bravo and the Marshallese who lived under its cloud.
Cite
Brookhaven National Laboratory (DOE). "Historical events associated with fallout from Bravo Shot – Operation Castle, and 25 years of medical findings." 1 July 1997. Released 1 July 1997. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/543363 (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0029).
Shelved nearby
- 1987 QA-0030DNA · Report
Analysis of radiation exposure: service personnel on Rongerik Atoll, Operation Castle – Shot Bravo
A 1987 Defense Nuclear Agency dose reconstruction for the U.S. weather-station crew on Rongerik Atoll, which the Bravo fallout cloud reached in 1954.
- 1977 QA-0027DoD · Report
The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, third edition (Glasstone & Dolan)
The standard unclassified U.S. government reference on blast, thermal radiation, fallout and EMP from nuclear detonations, published jointly by DoD and the Energy Research and Development Administration (report TID-28061).