Castle Bravo

Probably the most notorious and most breathtaking nuclear explosion ever caught on film, the United States’ 1954 Castle Bravo test is best known for the most consequential miscalculation of the nuclear age: the explosion ended up being 3 times the expected size, setting free the energy of 15 megatons of TNT and causing several civilian casualties due to unexpected fallout - and inspiring Japanese filmmakers for the first GODZILLA-film eventually. I sped up the best color footage of the test, added some sound effects and underscored it with John Morgan’s and William Stromberg’s track ’Castle Bravo’ from the soundtrack of the superb documentary TRINITY AND BEYOND by Peter Kuran, who’s channel ’atomcentral’ offers amazing footage of countless nuclear tests.