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Donald Fagen – Memorabilia

Dec 21, 2013

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Castle Bravo

Conducted at Bikini on March 1, 1954, this was the largest bomb ever tested by the US and by far the most notorious. A Japanese fishing boat in a supposedly safe area was covered with fallout, the crew got radiation poisoning and at least one died. Fallout also contaminated inhabited islands east of the test site, which were belatedly evacuated by the US Navy.

Donald Fagen – Memorabilia

Dec 21, 2013

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Island east of the Carolines

The US conducted all its large nuclear tests in the Pacific Proving Grounds: two coral atolls, Eniwetok Atoll and Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The Marshalls are east of the Caroline Islands.

Donald Fagen – Memorabilia

Dec 21, 2013

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perfect doom

Given all the references to US nuclear tests in the 1950s, an obvious reference to nuclear weaponry.

Donald Fagen – Memorabilia

Dec 21, 2013

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Ivy King

The largest pure fission nuclear bomb ever conducted by the US - Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands, November 16, 1952.

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