Installations and events across UC Berkeley center this Pacific island nation’s stories of nuclear devastation, rising seas ...
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 ...
At 6:45 a.m. on March 1, 1954, the U.S. detonated a thermonuclear weapon at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a chain of 29 coral atolls and five islands in the central Pacific Ocean, about ...
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 ...