It was used to determine the affect of atomic bombs. The nuclear testing at bikini atoll program was a series of 23 nuclear devices detonated by the united states between 1946 and 1958 at seven test sites on the reef itself on the sea in the air.
The atolls people were descendants of communities that had lived there for thousands of years subsisting on coconuts and seafood.
Bikini atoll island group. Another marshall islands atoll bikini atoll is infamous as the location of 23 nuclear tests that took place here between 1946 and 1958. But behind this idyllic picture is a devastating story of an island stolen from its people by nuclear testing that went very very wrong. It is an atoll that is part of the marshall islands which is in turn part of micronesia.
Part of the larger caroline islands group is a. People and events on bikini atoll. I remember when i first started diving back in 1989 i would sit around the table and listen to members of our dive club in south london salivating at the concept of diving bikini atolls saratoga an aircraft carrier and one of the worlds largest diveable wrecks.
By december 1945 navy planners had decided that the most suitable location was bikini atoll part of the marshall islands group which had been captured from the japanese in early 1944. This is the bikini atoll a beautiful paradise island of the micronesian island group in the pacific ocean. The united states was engaged in a cold war nuclear arms race with the soviet union to build more.
The nuclear testing at bikini atoll program was a series of 23 nuclear weapons detonated by the united states between 1946 and 1958 at seven test sites on the reef itself on the sea in the air and underwater. The test weapons produced a combined fission yield of 422 mt of explosive power. In 1998 an iaea advisory group formed in response to a request by the government of the marshall islands for an independent international review of the radiological conditions at bikini atoll recommended that bikini island should not be permanently resettled under the present radiological conditions.
Bikini the word bikini is neither greek or latin. The land area consists of 36 islets with a combined area of about 2 square miles on a reef that is 25 miles long. Bikini atollwithout a doubtis the undisputed top wreck diving destination on the planet.
Bikini is an atoll in the ralik chain of the marshall islands. N early 60 years after the last of 23 nuclear explosions in its land air and water bikini atoll again looks like the idyllic pacific paradise it was in 1946 a bracelet of sandy palm covered. Bikini atoll is one of two sites in the northern marshall islands used by the united states for testing of atmospheric nuclear weapons.
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