Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll (4K Super Enhanced Color Video) 🚩🚩🚩 Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll consisted of the detonation of 23 nuclear weapons by the United States between 1946 and 1958 on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Tests occurred 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 42.2 Mt of TNT in explosive power. The United States was engaged in a Cold War nuclear arms race with the Soviet U