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Bikini atoll

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | Copyright

Bikini atoll the site in the Marshall Islands where the United States conducted twenty-three tests of nuclear weapons. Testing took place from 1946 to 1958 and involved weapons totaling 77 megatons. In the earliest tests, in July 1946, the United States exploded two atomic devices to test their effects on naval forces. The first device, which was exploded above the water's surface, sank five of about seventy ships arranged for the test, and the second device, exploded underwater, sank nine ships. In March 1954 a 15 megaton device named Bravo yielded a larger-than-expected explosion, and radiation contaminated several of the atoll's populated islands. Controversy over the effects of radiation on the islands' people and ecology continues to the present day.

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Bikini Atoll

A Dictionary of World History | 2000 | Copyright

Bikini Atoll An atoll in the MARSHALL ISLANDS, west central Pacific. It was the site for 23 US nuclear bomb tests (1946–58). Despite expectations that it would be fit again for human habitation in 1968, the atoll remains too contaminated for the return of the Bikinians, who have been relocated on surrounding islands. In 1985 the USA agreed to decontaminate the atoll, a process that would take 10–15 years.

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Bikini Atoll

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Bikini Atoll Group of 36 islands in the w central Pacific and part of the US-administered Marshall Islands. The USA used the area to conduct atomic weapons tests (1946–56). The islands were affected by fallout and (although considered safe in 1969) were re-evacuated in 1978. Area: 5sq km (2sq mi).

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	After the bombs: residents of atoll bombed 'for the good of mankind' are... Magazine article from: New Internationalist; 10/1/2007
	840 islanders die from Bikini Atoll nuke testing, Japan aid sought. News Wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association; 3/3/2004
	Will Congress pay $250 million for Bikini? Evacuated for US nuclear tests,... Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 1/4/2000