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Bikini Atoll
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Bikini Atoll

Atoll in the Marshall Islands, western Pacific, where the USA carried out 23 atomic- and hydrogen-bomb tests (some underwater) from 1946 to 1958.

The islanders were relocated by the USA before 1946. Some returned after Bikini was declared safe for habitation 1969, but they were again removed in the late 1970s because of continuing harmful levels of radiation. In 1990 a US plan was announced to remove radioactive topsoil, allowing 800 islanders to return home.



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Under Truman, Navy ships were ordered to sail into the fallout zone around Bikini Island after a nuclear weapons test.
He's no Bill Clinton by Franklin, Daniel / Washington Monthly
In 1946, civilian scientists and 42,000 servicemen took part in military exercises associated with two atmospheric nuclear tests at Bikini Island.
Radiation exposure at the Crossroads by Science News
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