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 27m ...

The present assessment was requested by the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, with the purpose of obtaining an independent view of the radiological situation on Bikini Atoll, the ...

MAJURO, Marshall Islands--A miniature replica of a Japanese tuna fishing boat whose crew encountered fallout from a U.S. thermonuclear test at Bikini Atoll in 1954 now takes pride of place in the ...

By November the same year, U.S. military leaders began planning additional nuclear weapons tests. Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands was chosen by the United States to test 23 nuclear weapons ...

A bit of history Bikini Atoll was chosen by the US government as an operation base for nuclear testing after the Second World War, reports Demotivateur. At that time, in 1946 to be precise ...

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 ...

In 1954, the United States tested 6 hydrogen bombs on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Numerous Japanese fishing boats were operating in surrounding waters, and their crews were exposed to ...

thermonuclear tests beginning in March 1954 at Bikini Atoll. 1954. It followed Operation Upshot-Knothole. The ultimate objective was to test designs for an aircraft deliverable thermonuclear weapon.

But the bikini, or rather the island Bikini, also stands for a disastrous series of nuclear tests, carried out by the USA immediately after the Second World War. To this end, numerous ships of ...