Equivalent to 7,000 times the force of the Hiroshima bomb, the tests had major consequences ... movements advocating disarmament. Criterion (iv): Bikini Atoll is an outstanding example of a nuclear ...

More Getty Images The nuclear tests were held as part ... located on the southeastern fringe of Bikini Atoll, resulting from the atomic bomb test "Able" during Operation Crossroads, July 1 ...

Due to incorrect information provided by Getty Images, an earlier version of this column incorrectly used a photo depicting a French nuclear test ... bomb, on a man-made island in Bikini Atoll ...

Jessica Mendoza: One test site was the American territory of Bikini Atoll. Over 12 years, a total of 23 atomic bombs were detonated at and around the chain of islands. But before it was a nuclear ...

On July 1, 1946, almost one year after Japan’s defeat in World War II, the United States started conducting nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the ... Bravo hydrogen bomb was detonated.

The Able test on July 1 saw a 22-23 kiloton bomb dropped from a B ... Operation Crossroads—a set of nuclear weapons tests in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll. Operation Crossroads would represent ...

Summary: The dropping of a nuclear ... test since the end of the war—were to serve as a live demonstration of the U.S. nuclear deterrent. Bikini’s 167 residents relocated to nearby Rongerik ...

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 extre ...