Here's a link to the Nuclear Weapon Archive and the article on the Castle series; also shows the test device (the physics package was later modified into the Mk14, Mk17, and other thermonuclear bombs)-

http://www.nuclearweaponarchive.org/...ts/Castle.html

Yep, that's one BFMC (Big Freaking Mushroom Cloud). It's about three miles across...

Yours, Mike

Of course, that's not as crazy as the Soviets who did a 50 MT test intentionally. In a design that could be easily scaled up to 100 MT.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...q=nuclear+bomb
:o:o