Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...

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Between 1946 and 1958, the United States detonated 67 nuclear weapons across the Marshall Islands, turning remote Pacific atolls into irradiated proving grounds. Decades later, scientists diving into ...

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This shows the natives of Bikini Island as they were being evacuated and relocated (o.k., dispossessed) from their island prior to the atom bomb tests.