Bikini Atoll
Books
- Two Bombs at Bikini Operation Crossroads and the Birth of the Nuclear Age · Liszt Think
In July 1946, the U.S. Navy assembled ninety target ships and forty-two thousand men at Bikini Atoll to test atomic weapons against a fleet. What followed was a collision of military ambition and invisible peril.
- The Sun-Ringed Lagoon…Pacific, a scattered chain of twenty-nine atolls and five islands that together comprise one of the most remote inhabited places on earth. Bikini Atoll lies near the northern end of this chain, roughly 2, 400 miles southwest of Honolulu and 1, 800 miles east of Manila. Its twenty-three isle…
- A Fleet of Ghosts…tations would be argued. The assembly of the target fleet required an immense logistical operation. Some 42, 000 personnel were deployed to Bikini Atoll as part of Admiral Blandy’s Joint Task Force One to conduct the test. The support ships anchored outside the lagoon, their crews rotating t…
- The Unwilling Pioneers of Rongerik…preparation was under way. The 167 Bikinians were being moved to Rongerik, a relocation that would begin a permanent exile. February 1946. Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. The landing craft grounded on the coral sand with a grinding hiss. The Seabees had come to take the church apart. King J…