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America tested a massive new weapon. Then a nuclear nightmare started falling from the sky.

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 ...

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 ...
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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 ...