[ RadSafe ] Bikini Atoll's Nuked Coral Reef Bounces Back to Life

[Brent Rogers]

Franz

Your second possibility "exploded up to that day" is the correct one.

Regards
Brent Rogers
Sydney Australia

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf
Of franz.schoenhofer at chello.at
Sent: Monday, 21 April 2008 11:31 PM
To: Perle, Sandy; radsafe
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Bikini Atoll's Nuked Coral Reef Bounces Back to
Life

---- "Perle schrieb:
> Bikini Atoll's Nuked Coral Reef Bounces Back to Life
>
> (FNS) Apr 20 - Half a century after the atomic blasts that devastated
> Bikini Atoll, vast expanses of corals in the area seem to be flourishing
> once again, much to the surprise of scientists.
> American government scientists detonated a hydrogen bomb on the tiny
> island (a part of the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific) on March
> 1, 1954, .................
> Code-named Castle Bravo, the hydrogen bomb was the most powerful nuclear
> weapon ever exploded at the time at 15 megatons,......

I do not know the exact meaning of the complicated wording used in the last
sentence: Should it mean "ever exploded" or "exploded up to that day"? I do
not expect that it should mean that several nuclear weapons were exploded at
the same time.

Anyway the most powerful explosion of a nuclear weapon was that of a Russian
hydrogen bomb at Novaja Zemla in the early sixties with the equivalent of
about 60 Mt TNT. I remember that Chrushtshow mentioned that the explosion
was not intended in this intensity, but the scientists would not be punished
because they put in a little more "gun powder". 

Best regards,

Franz



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