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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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    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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    July at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in New Mexico. Two more were detonated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in...
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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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    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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    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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  • Watson covered multiple topics including the nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll, the invention of the nuclear submarine and the Korean War. During his career...
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    Castle Romeo (category Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll)
    on March 26, 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Castle Union (category Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll)
    device had 7.5% lithium-6 in the fusion fuel. The test took place on April 26, 1954 at Bikini atoll of the Marshall Islands, on a barge moored in the...
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  • series The American Experience. The film documents the nuclear tests performed around Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads in 1946, and their effects...
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    friendships and happiness at home to ensure the wing can accomplish its mission. Godzilla (1954) – nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific awakens...
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  • Castle Koon (category Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll)
    secondary concept similar to that first tested in the Koon shot. Hansen, Chuck, "The Swords of Armageddon: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development since 1945" (CD-ROM)...
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  • from 1942 to 1946, after which it was sunk in 1951 following nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll CV22 Coventry postcode area for Rugby, Warwickshire, England...
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    Composite Group during Operation Crossroads to photograph nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll, including the dropping of an atomic bomb by B-29 Superfortress...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Project Y (category Former nuclear research institutes)
    nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. A new Z Division was created to control testing, stockpiling and bomb assembly activities, which were concentrated at Sandia...
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