What could be more destructive than a 15 megatonne hydrogen bomb?
Marine life flourishes at Bikini Atoll test site - Telegraph
It was blasted by the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States but half a century on, Bikini Atoll supports a stunning array of tropical coral, scientists have found.
In 1954 the South Pacific atoll was rocked by a 15 megatonne hydrogen bomb 1,000 times more powerful than the explosives dropped on Hiroshima.
The explosion shook islands more than 100 miles away, generated a wave of heat measuring 99,000ｺF and spread mist-like radioactive fallout as far as Japan and Australia.
But, much to the surprise of a team of research divers who explored the area, the mile-wide crater left by the detonation has made a remarkable recovery and is now home to a thriving underwater ecosystem.
The scientists - from Australia, the US, Germany, Italy and the Marshall Islands - found corals up to 24 ft high with 10 inch thick trunks.....
Remember the good old days when all we worried about was a nuclear winter and the destruction of all life on earth. Just shows how resilient nature is, good news you would have thought but no, our intrepid scientists have to get a little dig in about, oh you can guess....
That did not mean, however, that the threat to coral reefs around the world from climate change had been overstated.
"Climate change is an ongoing struggle to survive with coral, with no reprieve in sight,"