mar 1, 1954 - The Americans conduct Castle Bravo - the first in a nuclear test series designed to develop an aircraft-deliverable thermonuclear weapon.

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"BRAVO, an American test conducted in the Pacific on March 1, 1954, that got out of control…the blast spread radioactive fallout hundreds of miles downwind, contaminating a Japanense fishing bout and killing a member of its crew. Less dangerous debris set off radiation detectors around the world. (Gaddis 2006 p. 64)

"Georgii Malenkov…days after the BRAVO test Malenkov surprised his own colleagues, as well as Western observers of the Soviet Union, by publicly warning that a new world war fought with modern weapons would mean the end of world civilization." (Gaddis 2006, p. 64).

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