In July of 1946, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll. In the coming years, the island was used for another twenty additional bomb tests.
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Bikini atoll
The Bikini Atoll is an atoll in the Marshall Islands and was the site of many American nuclear tests in the 1940s and 1950s.
Testing the Hydrogen bomb
Bikini atoll - Operation Crossroads, 2 shots.
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.