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- There, Réard dubbed the “four triangles of nothing” a “Bikini,” named after the Pacific Island atoll that the United States targeted just four days earlier for the well-publicized “Operation Crossroads,” the nuclear experiments that left several coral islands uninhabitable and produced higher-than-predicted radiation levels.
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May 12, 2022 · Between 1946 and 1958 the United States detonated 23 nuclear weapons on the tiny, remote ring of islands that make up Bikini Atoll.
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Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll consisted of the detonation of 23 (or 24 [a]) nuclear weapons by the United States between 1946 and 1958 on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Tests occurred at 7 test sites on the reef itself, on the sea, in the air, and underwater. [ 2 ]
Bikini, atoll in the Ralik (western) chain of the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The atoll was used for peacetime atomic explosions conducted for experimental purposes by the United States between 1946 and 1958.
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Bikini Atoll (/ ˈbɪkɪˌniː / or / bɪˈkiːni /; 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.
Oct 13, 2020 · The haute beachwear known as the bikini was named after a string of islands turned into a nuclear wasteland by atomic bomb testing. Operation Crossroads, Test Baker as seen from Bikini Atoll, July 25, 1946. via University of Washington Libraries. By: Lina Zeldovich. October 13, 2020.
Jan 17, 2019 · On March 1, 1954, a detonation on Bikini Atoll known as “Bravo” created an explosion equivalent to 1,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs. This monstrous detonation created real-life horror for Bikinians and their future generations.
Two American tests, Able and Baker, were conducted at the atoll in what became known as Operation Crossroads. The Baker device, called Helen of Bikini, was a 21-kiloton bomb and was placed...
