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Operation Crossroads was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity on July 16, 1945, and the first detonations of nuclear devices since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The purpose of the tests was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on warships.
Decades after residents of this remote coral atoll left to make way for U.S. atomic bomb tests, work has begun to clean up lingering radiation and bring the "nuclear nomads" of Bikini home to...
The summer of 1946 saw a lot of shocking scenes. There were the atomic bomb tests that tore up the waters off the Marshall Islands, leaving parts of the region more radioactive than Chernobyl ...
Bikini Atoll (/ ˈ b ɪ k ɪ ˌ n iː / or / b ɪ ˈ k iː n i /; Marshallese: Pikinni, [pʲiɡinnʲi], lit. ' coconut place '), [2] known as Eschscholtz Atoll between the 19th century and 1946, [3] is a coral reef in the Marshall Islands consisting of 23 islands surrounding a 229.4-square-mile (594.1 km 2) central lagoon.The atoll is at the northern end of the Ralik Chain, approximately 530 ...
As a group of tourists take a rare trip to the abandoned Bikini Atoll, we trace the dark history of the Pacific Ocean nuclear test site
On a quiet Sunday after church, he assembled the Bikinians to ask if they would be willing to leave their atoll temporarily so that the US could begin testing atomic bombs for "the good of mankind and to end all world wars".