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Bikini Atoll

Atoll of the Marshall Islands where the U.S. fired 23 nuclear weapons between 1946 and 1958.

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  1. A history of the people of Bikini following nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands: with recollections and views of elders of Bikini Atoll, Health Physics, vol. 73, no. 1 (July 1997), 1997. Scholarship & press
    King Juda, then the leader of the Bikinian people, stood up after much confused and sorrowful deliberation among his people
    In April of 1978, medical examinations performed by U.S. physicians revealed radiation levels in many of the now 139 people on Bikini to be well above the U.S. maximum permissible level.
    The Interior Department then announced plans to move the people from Bikini “within 75 to 90 days,” and so in September of 1978, Trust Territory officials arrived on Bikini to once again evacuate the people who were living on the atoll.
  2. Report of the Special Rapporteur on hazardous substances and wastes, Calin Georgescu, Addendum: Mission to the Marshall Islands and the United States of America (A/HRC/21/48/Add.1), United Nations Human Rights Council, 3 Sep 2012. Primary record
    conducting a total of 67 detonations throughout the territory of the Marshall Islands, mostly in Bikini (23) and Enewetak (43)
  3. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, Final Report, Chapter 12: The Marshallese, U.S. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (copy on the U.S. Department of Energy Openness site), 1995. Primary record
    The Bravo shot was detonated on Bikini at 6:45 a.m. on March 1, 1954.
    Bravo was the second test of a thermonuclear (hydrogen) bomb, with a yield of 15 megatons, a thousand times the strength of the Hiroshima bomb.
    The Bravo shot was detonated on Bikini at 6:45 a.m. on March 1, 1954. Its yield was substantially greater than expected.
    Testing of nuclear weapons began on July 1, 1946, with Operation Crossroads, two tests at Bikini Atoll.
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