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No; there wasn’t. We clearly didn’t know the exact numbers to expect from the detonations, but we could clearly predict that exploding bomb A is going to cause
by heavenlyblue 9y ago
No; there wasn’t. We clearly didn’t know the exact numbers to expect from the detonations, but we could clearly predict that exploding bomb A is going to cause a fallout of scale 5 to 10. In the case of war you’d want to know if you’re about to kill 500k vs 1m people, but ethically speaking this number is already vastly over something to be considered OK.
- IntronExon 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo Castle Bravo's yield was 15 megatons of TNT, 2.5 times the predicted 6.0 megatons, due to unforeseen additional reactions involving 7Li,[3] which led to the unexpected radioactive contamination of areas to the east of Bikini Atoll.