He named it after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the site of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon tests in July that year.

In 1954, the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon was exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, in 1969, an ecologically catastrophic oil spill from an offshore well in California's Santa Barbara Channel, Barry Commoner's protest against nuclear testing, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, Paul R. Ehrlich's The Population Bomb all added anxiety about the environment.

This became evident when Mountbatten had to be reassured that the fission reactions from the Bikini Atoll tests would not spread through the oceans and blow up the planet.

* 1946 – Operation Crossroads: an atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.

These islands, " Los Jardines ," could be Eniwetok or Bikini Atoll.

Project 4. 1 was a medical study conducted by the United States of those residents of the Bikini Atoll exposed to radioactive fallout.

* Bikini Atoll

* 1954 – Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.

* 1956 – In Operation Redwing ( shot Cherokee ), the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

That began to change in 1948 when reports of Bikini Atoll tests were circulated among the Air Force, which made information about the bomb more available to planners and helped to convince them of its strategic capabilities.

* July 1 – Nuclear testing: Operation Crossroads, a series of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in Micronesia, is initiated by detonation of Able at an altitude of 520 feet ( 158 m ).

** Nuclear testing: In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the surplus USS Saratoga is sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, when the United States detonates the Baker device during Operation Crossroads.

** U. S. officials announce that a hydrogen bomb test ( Castle Bravo ) has been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

In 1954, the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon 5 was exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll.

For another example, in a region devastated by nuclear radiation, such as the Bikini Atoll, capacity to survive gamma rays to sexual maturity and ( for the female ) to term is a key ecological selection factor, although it is neither " natural " nor sexual.

That job was made the priority, and by the time he returned from the testing at Bikini Atoll in July 1946, the NOL computer project was shut down due to lack of progress, again on the advice of von Neumann.

" However, less than two days after this announcement the dirty version of Bassoon, called Bassoon Prime, with a uranium-238 tamper in place, was tested on a barge off the coast of Bikini Atoll as the Redwing Tewa shot.

One of the oldest ships of World War II, and expended and wrecked in an atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll in July 1946.

The sunken vessel Prinz Eugen, used during the Bikini Atoll atomic weapons tests, is located here along the islet's northern lagoon side.

* The second USS Sumner ( AG-32 / AGS-5 ) was originally the submarine tender Bushnell ; commissioned in 1915, converted to a survey ship in World War II, and a participant in the nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll ; decommissioned in 1946.

It is the second westernmost atoll of the Ralik Chain, and is located west from Bikini Atoll.

After the war, his experience reporting on the Bikini Atoll nuclear experiments turned him into a pacifist and a founding member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Operation Crossroads was a series of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946.

Scientists observing the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests in 1946 at Bikini Atoll named that transitory cloud a " Wilson cloud " because of its similarity to a Wilson cloud chamber ; the cloud chamber uses condensation from a rapid pressure drop to mark the tracks of electrically charged subatomic particles.

Numerous reporters from hundreds of papers across the country were covering preparations in 1946 at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean's Marshall Islands for testing of the first nuclear bomb after World War II.

He had a top-secret and atomic-energy clearance and on March 1, 1954 he witnessed the Bikini H-bomb test.

At Lollapalooza on July 4, 1995, in George, Washington, Love punched Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna in the face and pelted her with candy and a burning cigarette, after Hanna had allegedly made a drug joke about Love's two-year-old daughter.

Major bands from this era included Beatrice, who had moved from disco to punk and folk-influenced rock and were known for their splashy, uncensored and theatrical performances, P. Mobil, Bikini, Hobo Blues Band, a bluesy duo, A. E. Bizottság, Európa Kiadó, Sziámi and Edda művek.

The fallout from the Castle Bravo test had the appearance of white dust and was nicknamed Bikini snow ; the tiny white flakes resembled snowflakes, stuck to surfaces, and had salty taste.

However, with Kwajalein island used as a support base for the nuclear tests conducted at Bikini Atoll and Enewetak Atoll, Marshallese residents of Kwajalein were relocated by U. S. authorities to a small, planned community constructed on Ebeye, which was largely unpopulated and had served as a Japanese seaplane base prior to the Pacific War.

The detonation unexpectedly rained nuclear fallout and two inches ( 50 mm ) of radioactive snow on nearby Rongelap Atoll, which had not been evacuated as had Bikini.

The New Game of the week of the year has had many wins on their SpongeBob games, such as Bikini Bottom Bust Up, Dunces and Dragons, The Attack Of The Lava King, and more.

) But before the bombs could be tested the government first had to find a home for the displaced natives on Bikini.

They also had a cameo role in the 1967 beach movie It's a Bikini World.

Opening: Plankton created a robot army to steal the krabby patty recipe, but he had it set to disobey mode, so the robots ignored Plankton's orders and attacked Bikini Bottom instead.

In 2009, Wounded Bird Records reissued the albums ' Gun Shy ' and ' Bikini Red ', which had been unavailable since the early 1990s.

The main cast usually had running roles ( though their character names sometimes changed from picture to picture ), and with the exception of Muscle Beach Party, the villains of the story were usually biker Eric Von Zipper ( played by comic actor Harvey Lembeck as a parody of Marlon Brando in The Wild One ) and his inept gang the Rat Pack, or " Rats & Mice " ( which included Alberta Nelson, of Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine and The Andy Griffith Show ).

At one time the island was even the home of the Daigo Fukuryū Maru, a fishing boat which had been exposed to nuclear fallout during the Bikini Atoll test.

Major bands from this era included Beatrice, who had moved from disco to punk and folk-influenced rock and were known for their splashy, uncensored and theatrical performances, P. Mobil, Bikini, Hobo Blues Band, a bluesy duo, A. E. Bizottság, Európa Kiadó, Sziámi and Edda művek.

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