PBS Specials

Burning Sky: The Atomic Marines (2021x6)

Air date: Jun 23, 2021

After being sworn to secrecy about their Cold War mission, some of the marines involved are now finally speaking out about a series of top-secret nuclear tests codenamed "Operation Castle", held in 1954, that the US military carried out in a trial known as “Castle Bravo”; including the detonation of a massive 15-megaton hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.