bikini atoll

     

Bikini Atoll (also known as Pikinni Atoll) is an atoll in one of the Micronesian Islans in the Pacific Ocean, part of Republic of the Marshall Islands. It consists of 36 islands surrounding a 229.4-square-mile (594.1 km²) lagoon. As part of the Pacific Proving Grounds it was the site of more than 20 nuclear weapons tests between 1946 and 1958, including the first test of a practical dry fuel hydrogen bomb in 1952.

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  • In the 1950s Enewetak & this atoll consisted the Pacific proving ground of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
  • On March 1, 1954 the U.S. conducted the first of a series of hydrogen bomb tests on this Pacific atoll
  • The first peacetime atomic weapons test was conducted here on July 1, 1946

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