Bikini Atoll. Two craters from Operation Castle can be seen on the northwest cape of the atoll, adjacent to Namu island. The larger is from the 15 Mt Bravo shot, with the smaller 11 Mt Romeo crater adjoining it.
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Nickname:
Kili
Motto(s):
Men otemjej rej ilo bein anij(Marshallese) (English: Everything is in the hands of God)
Anthem: Ij Jab Ber Emol(Marshallese) (English: No longer can I stay)
Population relocated in 1948 Resettled population evacuated in 1980
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Official name
Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site
Criteria
Cultural: iv; vi
Reference
1339
Inscription
2010 (34th Session)
Bikini
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Location of Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean
Bikini Atoll (/ˈbɪkɪˌniː/ or /bɪˈkiːni/; Marshallese: Pikinni, [pʲiɡinnʲi], lit.'coconut place'),[2] known as Eschscholtz Atoll between the 19th century and 1946,[3] is a coral reef in the Marshall Islands consisting of 23 islands surrounding a 229.4-square-mile (594.1 km2) central lagoon. The Atoll is at the northern end of the Ralik Chain, approximately 530 miles (850 km) northwest of the capital Majuro.
After the Second World War, the atoll was chosen by the United States as a nuclear weapon testing site. All 167 of the atoll's inhabitants were forcibly relocated in 1946[4] to Rongerik, a small island east of Bikini Atoll with inadequate resources to support the population. The islanders began experiencing starvation by early 1948, and they were moved again, this time to Kwajalein Atoll.[5] The United States used the islands and lagoon as the site of 23 nuclear tests until 1958.
In 1970, about 200 residents were returned to their home island by the U.S. government.[6] But scientists found dangerously high levels of strontium-90 in well water in May 1978 and the residents' bodies were carrying abnormally high concentrations of caesium-137. They were evacuated again in 1980. The atoll is occasionally visited today by divers and a few scientists, and is occupied by a handful of caretakers.
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^"The Marshall Islands: A Brief History". Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
^Kiste, Robert C. (1974). The Bikinians : a study in forced migration(PDF). Menlo Park, Calif.: Cummings Pub. Co. ISBN 0846537524. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 August 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
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^Niedenthal, Jack (2001). "A History of the People of Bikini Following Nuclear Weapons Testing in the Marshall Islands". Health Physics. 73 (1): 28–36. doi:10.1097/00004032-199707000-00003. ISSN 0017-9078. PMID 9199216. Archived from the original on 5 July 2023. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
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high-yield (high-energy) nuclear tests by Joint Task Force 7 (JTF-7) at BikiniAtoll beginning in March 1954. It followed Operation Upshot–Knothole and preceded...
in the megaton range. The test was scheduled to take place from the BikiniAtoll. Due to the fact that the payloads of Teak and Orange were much larger...
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including hydrogen bomb tests, primarily at BikiniAtoll, about 120 kilometers (75 mi) from Rongelap Atoll. On March 1, 1954, the testing of the Castle...
thermonuclear weapon design tests conducted by the United States at BikiniAtoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Castle. Detonated on March 1...
bikini, modeled by Micheline Bernardini. Reard named his design after the BikiniAtoll, where the first post-war tests of the atomic bomb were taking place...
more were detonated during the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at BikiniAtoll in 1946, and some 120 were produced between 1947 and 1949, when it was...
circumference. It is the second-westernmost atoll of the Ralik Chain and is 305 kilometers (190 mi) west from BikiniAtoll. It was held by the Japanese from 1914...
American Experience. The film documents the nuclear tests performed around BikiniAtoll during Operation Crossroads in 1946, and their effects on the indigenous...
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swimsuit, which he called the bikini, named four days after the first test of an American nuclear weapon at the BikiniAtoll. Designer Louis Réard could...
personality disorder. Bikini Bottom is a fictional city in SpongeBob SquarePants that is set below BikiniAtoll. A theory regarding Bikini Bottom explains that...
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