Bikini atoll bomb testing
The nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll program was a series of 23 nuclear devices detonated by the United States between and at seven test sites on the .
And even more bombings to follow
Bikini Atoll is an atoll in the Marshall Islands which consists of 23 islands totalling square miles ( km2) surrounding a.
They were the first time that a nuclear weapon had been deployed since the 1945 attacks on Japan
Description:These core samples—from to feet into the limestone reef—were to provide data to test competing theories of coral reef formation. This essay includes material excerpted and adapted from: Schultz led statistical and systematic studies of the fish populations; radiological investigations were also carried out; and the embryology of sea-urchins was studied, in order to determine possible effects of radiation on reproduction. Bayer , a young, newly hired invertebrate zoologist at the museum specializing in corals. For the Fishes collections, it was one of the more significant collecting efforts of the twentieth century. The next series of tests that began in , had devastating if unintended consequences for Bikini Atoll that are still wreaking havoc to this day. Watch scientists on the Bikini Resurvey project of collecting specimens.
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