On July 22, 2016, the U.S. National Security Archives declassified and released all the footage shot by Task Force One, the Army Air Force scientific photographic unit as it flew over Bikini Atoll ...

The film documents the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests conducted at Bikini Atoll in 1946. It details the meticulous preparations, including the positioning of 90 ships as targets, the use of ...

A man has shown what an island that is "too radioactive" to live on actually looks like, exploring Bikini Island, or Bikini Atoll, of the Marshall Islands located in the Central Pacific Ocean. Kirk ...

Researchers view Bikini Atoll on a map during a scientific seminar organized aboard the USS Chilton, part of the 1947 Bikini Resurvey Project. Credit: University of Washington: Special Collections ...

“We will go believing that everything is in the hands of God,” said the king of Bikini Atoll in 1946. The previous year, president Truman had declared that the Pacific archipelago would be America’s ...

Summary and Key Points: In July 1946, the U.S. conducted Operation Crossroads at Bikini Atoll to study the effects of nuclear weapons. Two tests, Able and Baker, involved detonating atomic bombs near ...

An American hydrogen bomb test in 1954 threw up an estimated "two hundred billion pounds of coral reef and the sea floor," after the weapons yield turned out to be nearly three times what U.S.

This year marks 75 years since the United States launched its immense atomic testing program in the Pacific. The historical fallout from tests carried out over 12 years in the Marshall Islands, then a ...

When Red China crashed the nuclear club, its A-bomb test blast echoed through all the world’s capitals. And it roused once again the specter of a dead and devastated world. Scientists and laymen alike ...