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Scientists discovered something impossible in Chernobyl's radioactive ruins - life is thriving where nothing should survive.

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 ...

Kelen was born on Kwajalein Atoll, 400 kilometers southeast of Bikini, in 1968. His family had arrived there after relocating repeatedly as a result of the impact of the nuclear test.