For the first time, scientists have conducted extensive mapping of the seafloor at Bikini Atoll, the remote Pacific Ocean testing site for atomic bombs between 1946 and 1954. The research was revealed ...

Seafloor mapping has revealed craters beneath the Pacific Ocean from nuclear weapons testing, scientists report. From 1946 to 1958, the United States dropped 23 atomic bombs over Bikini Atoll in the ...

At 8:35 a.m. on July 25, 1946, the US Navy detonated a 21-kiloton atomic bomb — nicknamed “Helen of Bikini” — 90 feet beneath the surface of Bikini Atoll’s lagoon. It was Test Baker, the second shot ...

On July 22, 2016, the U.S. National Security Archives declassified and released all the footage shot by Task Force One, the Army Air Force scientific photographic unit as it flew over Bikini Atoll ...

One of my favorite e-mail correspondents is the National Security Archive at The George Washington University in D.C. These guys specialize in bringing to light the hidden archaeology of the Cold War.

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On this date in 1946, the United States exploded a twenty kiloton atomic bomb above the water near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. tested there again later that month, exploding an atomic ...

Trusts created for persons from the Pacific island that became a nuclear test site have been drained, according to a lawsuit filed in Delaware Chancery Court. The people of Bikini Atoll—the Pacific ...

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The Marshall Islands marks 60 years since the devastating US hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll Saturday, with angry exiled residents saying they are too fearful ever to go home. Part of the intense ...

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