to radionuclides have a much greater risk of developing cancer. The female population of the Marshall Islands have a sixty times greater mortality rate from cervical cancer than a comparable mainland United States population. The Islands populations also have a five time greater likelihood of breast or gastrointestinal mortality, and lung cancer mortality is three times higher than the mainland population. The mortality rate of the male population on the Marshall Islands from lung cancer is four times greater than the overall United States rates, and the oral cancer rates are ten times greater. There is a presumed association between radiation levels and functioning of the female reproductive system. In popular culture The Castle Bravo detonation and the subsequent poisoning of the crew aboard Daigo Fukuryū Maru led to an increase in antinuclear protests in Japan. It was compared to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Castle Bravo test was frequently part of the plots of numerous Japanese media, especially in relation to Japan's most widely recognized media icon, Godzilla. In the 2019 film Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Castle Bravo becomes the call sign for Monarch Outpost 54 located in the Atlantic Ocean, near Bermuda. The Donald Fagen song "Memorabilia" from his 2012 album Sunken Condos mentions both the Castle Bravo and Ivy King nuclear tests. In 2013, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency published Castle Bravo: Fifty Years of Legend and Lore. The report is a guide to off-site radiation exposures, a narrative history, and a guide to primary historical references concerning the Castle Bravo test. The report focuses on the circumstances that resulted in radioactive exposure of the uninhabited atolls, and makes no attempt to address in detail the effects on or around Bikini Atoll. See also History of nuclear weapons Operation Ivy Tsar Bomba Chagai-I Chagai-II References Notes Citations Bibliography Chuck Hansen, U. S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History (Arlington: AeroFax, 1988) Holly M. Barker, Bravo for the Marshallese: Regaining control in a Post-Nuclear, Post Colonial World (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2004) Republic of the Marshall Islands Embassy website External links US tests hydrogen bomb in Bikini (BBC News) First-person article about conducting the test Strategic Air Command History-Development of Atomic Weapons 1956 Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll Nuclear accidents and incidents Ralik Chain Explosions in 1954 March 1954 events in Oceania 1950s in the Marshall Islands 1954 disasters in Oceania 1954 in military history 1954