Matashichi Oishi, a long-time anti-nuclear activist and victim of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, died on March 7. He was 87. Oishi, born in Shizuoka ...

How did the word “bikini” come to denote a two-piece swimsuit? On July 1, 1946, almost one year after Japan’s defeat in World War II, the United States started conducting nuclear tests at ...

The date was 25 July 1946. The location - Bikini Atoll. The event - only the fifth A-bomb explosion and the first-ever detonation under water. The pictures we've all seen: A giant mushroom cloud ...

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This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The U.S. stuffed waste from nuclear bomb tests under a dome on a Pacific island. Now, the dome is cracking open A strong ...

The National Air and Space Museum's aerial cameras have photographed or filmed birds, cold war secrets, the atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll, Indian ruins in the American Southwest, and scenes from ...