Abstract
On the morning of 1 March 1954, the United States detonated a ther monuclear weapon named BRAVO at its proving grounds on the Bi kini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.1 Within one minute, this bomb produced a huge fireball, created a massive crater in the coral reef, and stripped the nearby islands of all vegetation. The energy released by the explosion was equivalent to 15 million tons of TNT.2 BRAVO is significant to the history of American-East Asian rela tions for a number of reasons. First, it was the largest thermonuclear test ever carried out by the United States.3 One thousand times more
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