As Partick J. Kiger wrote Between 1946 and 1958 the United States detonated 23 nuclear weapons on the tiny, remote ring of islands that make up Bikini Atoll. Marshal Islands. This week, twenty years ...
Christmas Day of both years found his ship, the U.S.S. Sumner, anchored at Ulithi Atoll in the Caroline Islands in the Western Pacific. It was a large-scale port built by the Navy. It wasn’t ...