<img src="http://www.pinstripemag.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/castle_bravo_blast-610x343.jpg" width="177.842565598" height="100" alt="Thumbnail" class="align-left thumbnail" /><strong><a href="http://www.pinstripemag.com/2011/03/the-top-10-nuclear-disasters.html/castle_bravo_blast"></a></strong> <strong>10. Castle Bravo, a Botched Hydrogen Bomb Test </strong> In 1954, some engineers from Los Alamos National Laboratory made a little miscalculation before a nuclear weapons test. Their hydrogen bomb was more than twice as powerful as expected. It created a 15 megaton blast that showered a Japanese fishing boat and several Pacific islands with radioactive fallout. <strong>9. [...]</strong>