Bombs over Bikini

In 1946, as part of the Cold War arms race, the US military launched a program to test nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific Ocean. From 1946 until 1958, the military detonated sixty-seven nuclear bombs over the region''s Bikini and Enewetak Atolls. The twelfth bomb, called Bravo, became the world''s first nuclear disaster. It sent a toxic cloud of radiation over Rongelap Atoll and ...