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 ...

all to see the infamous Bikini Atoll with his own eyes. Iain, who works in a tax office, hadn’t even heard of the nuclear bomb test site in the Pacific Ocean, until he saw the trip in an extreme ...

The first nuclear test was carried out by ... Science Photo Library This 1956 test was one of several carried out in Bikini Atoll in the 1950s People nearby had been evacuated - many never to ...

Summary and Key Points: In July 1946, the U.S. conducted Operation Crossroads at Bikini Atoll to study the effects of nuclear weapons. Two tests, Able and Baker, involved detonating atomic ...

It was recently repaired by Alson Kelen, who once served as mayor of Bikini Atoll ... the atomic bomb used against Hiroshima in August 1945. To mark the 70th anniversary of the Bikini test ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just 80 miles west of its destination lay the Bikini Atoll, an island famous for America's testing of various nuclear ... "I took the characteristics of an atomic bomb and applied them to Gojira." ...

All of the detonations took place over Bikini Atoll. Castle Romeo was ... nuclear test #123 over Novaya Zemlya. Test #123 utilized a 12.5 megaton nuclear bomb. A bomb of this size would incinerate ...