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This Day in Military History – The Bikini Atolls Host the First Underwater Nuclear Test 70th Anniversary

At 8:35 a.m. on July 25, 1946, the US Navy detonated a 21-kiloton atomic bomb — nicknamed “Helen of Bikini” — 90 feet beneath the surface of Bikini Atoll’s lagoon. It was Test Baker, the second shot ...
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23 US nuclear tests forced Bikini Atoll residents from their homes; decades later, scientists found giant corals thriving underwater

For years, Bikini Atoll has been associated with the destructive legacy of nuclear weapons testing. Stanford University reported that between 1946 and 1958, the United States detonated 23 nuclear ...
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New Bikini Atoll A-Bomb test films released by National Security

On July 22, 2016, the U.S. National Security Archives declassified and released all the footage shot by Task Force One, the Army Air Force scientific photographic unit as it flew over Bikini Atoll ...
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Thriving reef at Bikini Atoll is a triumph of resilience and a warning

BANGKOK – One of the best Pacific Ocean locations to witness a stunning abundance of tropical fish, sharks and corals is also the least expected – Bikini Atoll, site of U.S. nuclear tests in the ...