[Pierre-Marie Baty]

bio is right, it was the bikini atoll. The island was vaporized by a 15 megaton TNT equivalent nuke, officially the biggest nuke tested in the United States. It caused the whole island to sink 20 meters below the ground, sinking a dozen US ships in the same time.

Do you REALLY think the US were (and would still be) satisfied with those 15 megaton nukes, whereas in the same time the communists were testing 60 MEGATON TNT/eq nukes under the direction of Andrei Sakharov that were at the same time limited, their nominal power being 150 mega fuckin tons untested, i.e. TEN TIMES bigger than the US bomb that sunk bikini ? Do you really think the US stopped all nuclear tests at 15 megatons in... 1951 ?