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    Map all coordinates in "Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll" using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates)...
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    Bikini Bikini Atoll (/ˈbɪkɪˌniː/ or /bɪˈkiːni/; Marshallese: Pikinni, [pʲiɡinnʲi], lit. 'coconut place'), known as Eschscholtz Atoll between the 19th century...
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    was a pair of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946. They were the first nuclear weapon tests since Trinity...
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    United States series of high-yield (high-energy) nuclear tests by Joint Task Force 7 (JTF-7) at Bikini Atoll beginning in March 1954. It followed Operation...
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    of 35 nuclear tests conducted by the United States from April 28 to August 18 in 1958 at the Pacific Proving Grounds.: 212  At the time of testing, the...
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    Castle Bravo (redirect from Bravo test)
    series of high-yield thermonuclear weapon design tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Castle. Detonated...
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    were detonated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946. The three tests in the next series, Operation Sandstone in 1948...
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    Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll and Enewetak Atoll. The U.S. government formed the Congress of Micronesia...
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    people, including reparations for the nuclear testing and resettlement of the Bikinians who were exiled. "Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands)". Flags of the World...
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    Castle Yankee (redirect from Yankee test)
    Castle Bravo test was successful. The test device was replaced with a TX-24/EC-24 Runt II bomb which was detonated on May 5, 1954, at Bikini Atoll. It released...
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    United States series of 17 nuclear test detonations from May to July 1956. They were conducted at Bikini and Enewetak atolls by Joint Task Force 7 (JTF7)...
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    Daigo Fukuryū Maru (category Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll)
    men which was contaminated by nuclear fallout from the United States Castle Bravo thermonuclear weapon test at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954. The crew suffered...
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    Deliver sailed for Pearl Harbor, arriving 15 April 1946. She was sent to Bikini Atoll 30 May for duty in connection with Operation Crossroads, first assisting...
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    involuntarily.[citation needed] The atoll was used for nuclear testing, as part of the Pacific Proving Grounds. Before testing commenced, the U.S. exhumed the...
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  • harbor clearance operations at Okinawa into the spring of 1946. In May, she assisted in the preparations at Bikini Atoll for Operation Crossroads before...
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    after the Bikini Atoll, where the first public test of a nuclear bomb had taken place four days before. Due to its revealing design, the bikini was once...
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    atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, including hydrogen bomb tests, primarily at Bikini Atoll, about 120 kilometers (75 mi) from Rongelap Atoll. On March...
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    ARDC-13 (category Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll)
    floating drydock used for testing during the Able and Baker nuclear weapon tests of Operation Crossroads in the Bikini Atoll. It was used to determine...
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    Oishi Matashichi (category Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll)
    proliferation of nuclear weapons. In 2015 he attended a memorial service on the Marshall Islands for the victims of the nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll. He was...
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    Pacific Proving Grounds (category Bikini Atoll)
    Pacific Ocean at which it conducted nuclear testing between 1946 and 1962. The U.S. tested a nuclear weapon (codenamed Able) on Bikini Atoll on June 30,...
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    known as Aomoen, is an island twelve kilometers northwest of Bikini Island, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. The portion of the island covered by vegetation...
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    repairs, she was used in Operation Crossroads, part of the nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll, before being expended as a target ship in 1948. The preceding...
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    Castle Romeo (category Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll)
    on 26 March 1954, at Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands, on a barge moored in the middle of the crater from the Castle Bravo test. It was the first...
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    the Marshall Islands, approximately 200 kilometers (120 mi) east of Bikini Atoll. Its total land area is only 1.68 square kilometers (0.65 sq mi), but...
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    Castle Union (category Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll)
    device had 7.5% lithium-6 in the fusion fuel. The test took place on 26 April 1954 at Bikini atoll of the Marshall Islands, on a barge moored in the lagoon...
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    German cruiser Prinz Eugen (category Kwajalein Atoll)
    Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. Having survived the atomic blasts, Prinz Eugen was towed to Kwajalein Atoll, where she ultimately...
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    Windscale fire 1957 Operation Plumbbob 1954 Totskoye nuclear exercise 1946–1954 Bikini Atoll nuclear tests Hanford Site Rocky Flats Plant, see also radioactive...
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    After the war ended he participated in the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. He left the Navy with the rank of lieutenant (junior grade)...
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    the deputy scientific director, at the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in July 1946. Holloway became the head of the...
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    Nuclear weapons testing is the act of experimentally and deliberately firing one or more nuclear devices in a controlled manner pursuant to a military...
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