The atoll was used for peacetime atomic explosions conducted for experimental purposes by the United States between 19. The people of Bikini Atoll were moved from their homeland in 1946 to make way for the testing of 23 nuclear weapons by the United States government, beginning with the worlds fourth atomic detonation. In September 1978, the Islanders were once again evacuated. Bikini Atoll (also known as Pikinni Atoll) is an atoll in one of the Micronesian Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Bikini, an atoll in the Ralik (western) chain of the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. Bikini is the anglicized, or colonial, spelling of Pikinni Atoll, a group of islands within the Marshall Islands that includes a lagoon. But subsequent monitoring of the islands revealed higher levels of radioactivity than originally thought.
agencies declared that it was safe to return to Bikini, President Johnson ordered the atoll to be resettled "with all possible dispatch." Bikini Islanders began returning home in the early '70s.
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The 167 islanders, who were living on Bikini at the time were evacuated by U.S. The Bikini Atoll tests, and tests carried out in general during the Cold War, gave rise to a series of images and symbols of the nuclear era. from a deep well in Kita-Daito-Zima (North Borodino Island), Jubilee Publication in Commemoration of Prof. A number of atomic tests took place on Bikini, the first of which called Operation Crossroads, was scheduled for March of 1946. Drilling on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Bikini itself is perhaps best known in the West for the role it played in the U.S. Bikini Atoll, located in the central Pacific, is one of the 29 atolls and five islands that make up the Marshall Islands.
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