Installations and events across UC Berkeley center this Pacific island nation’s stories of nuclear devastation, rising seas ...
At 8:35 a.m. on July 25, 1946, the US Navy detonated a 21-kiloton atomic bomb — nicknamed “Helen of Bikini” — 90 feet beneath the surface of Bikini Atoll’s lagoon. It was Test Baker, the second shot ...
For years, Bikini Atoll has been associated with the destructive legacy of nuclear weapons testing. Stanford University ...
At 6:45 a.m. on March 1, 1954, the U.S. detonated a thermonuclear weapon at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a chain of 29 coral atolls and five islands in the central Pacific Ocean, about ...