Two American tests, Able and Baker, were conducted at the atoll in what became known as Operation Crossroads. The Baker device, called Helen of Bikini, was a 21-kiloton bomb and was placed 27m ...

How did the word “bikini” come ... related names. Nuclear tests continued in the Marshall Islands. On March 1, 1954--exactly 70 years ago--the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb was detonated.

Matashichi Oishi, a long-time anti-nuclear activist and victim of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, died on March 7. He was 87. Oishi, born in Shizuoka ...

with the purpose of obtaining an independent view of the radiological situation on Bikini Atoll, the site of nuclear weapons testing in the period 1946 -1958. In particular, questions were posed about ...

The first nuclear ... Island in the Marshall Islands where repeated nuclear tests were carried out But the biggest ever nuclear device detonated by the US was Castle Bravo, in 1954 at Bikini ...