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 ...

In the summer of 1946, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in Operation Crossroads—the first nuclear weapons tests after WWII. In 1947, the Navy returned to the ...

For years, Bikini Atoll has been associated with the destructive legacy of nuclear weapons testing. Stanford University ...

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 ...

The wreck of the Japanese battleship Nagato rests upside down in roughly 70 meters of water at Bikini Atoll. Nagato survived the initial Baker blast but sank several days later. (Ashley ...