Bikini and Eniwetok atolls are US protectorates in the Marshal Islands of the pacific. They are considered legally US property.
The atoll used by the US for nuclear weapons testing is called Bikini Atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The infamous Castle Bravo test, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by the US, took place there in 1954.
Bikini Atoll and Enewetak Atoll were used for nuclear testing because they were remote and isolated from populated areas, they are part of the Marshall Islands which the US gained control of after WW2, their population was small and easy to relocate, etc.
The main difference is test devices often have no casing, but this may not be true as some tests were done with the full operational military bomb (e.g. Crossroads Able in 1946 was a test involving dropping a MK-III bomb identical to Fatman from a B-29 over Bikini Atoll).
The US tested nuclear devices in the Trinity test site in NM, Bikini atoll in the Marshal islands, Eniwetok atoll in the Marshal islands, underwater offshore Mexico in international waters south of San Diego CA, the Nevada test site north of Las Vegas NV, in space, and for project Plowshare (peaceful uses of nuclear explosives) in about half a dozen other states.The USSR tested nuclear devices at 2 or 3 sites in Siberia and its largest fusion bomb tests were on the arctic island of Novaya Zemlya.The UK tested nuclear devices in Australia.France tested early nuclear devices in the Sahara desert while it still had colonies there, since then I'm not sure.
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The atoll used by the US for nuclear weapons testing is called Bikini Atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The infamous Castle Bravo test, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated by the US, took place there in 1954.
There were 23 total nuclear weapons tested at Bikini Atoll between the years of 1946 and 1958. These nuclear weapons caused a great amount of radiation to be leaked into the surrounding areas.
Bikini Atoll in the Marshal island chain .
Bikini Atoll and Enewetak Atoll were used for nuclear testing because they were remote and isolated from populated areas, they are part of the Marshall Islands which the US gained control of after WW2, their population was small and easy to relocate, etc.
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Bikini Bottom is under the Bikini Atoll is the Pacific Ocean.
A fashion company named it on that the nuclear tests on bikini island were so hot that their product must be that hot too. Bikini caught on.
Between 1946 and 1958, Bikini Atoll was used to test nuclear bombs and the bikini swim wear was named after the islands.
Harry S. Truman was the President of the United States from 1945-1953. During the periods of 1946-1956, 23 nuclear and hydrogen bombs were tested in the Marshall Islads where the bikini atoll and bimini island are located. This would be the connection between Truman and the bikini island.
The Bikini Atoll is an atoll in the Marshall Islands and was the site of many American nuclear tests in the 1940s and 1950s.
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