Testing the Hydrogen bomb
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.
Bikini atoll
Bikini atoll - Operation Crossroads, 2 shots.
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The Guano Islands Act allowed the United States to claim midway atoll.
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.
The Bikini atoll was used for nuclear weapons testing.
Bikini Atoll in the Marshal island chain .
Bikini atoll
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 US tested on Bikini atoll, Eniwetok atoll, and launched some high altitude tests from Johnston island on rockets. The UK tested on Christmas island.
Bikini and Eniwetok atolls are US protectorates in the Marshal Islands of the pacific. They are considered legally US property.
Bikini atoll - Operation Crossroads, 2 shots.
The French conducted nuclear testing in the Tuamotu islands, on the atoll of Mururoa. The US conducted nuclear testing on the atoll of Bikini in the Marchall islands.
American Samoa, Baker Island, Guam, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island.
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