Bikini Atoll

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Bikini Atoll Nuke Test Video Declassified on 70th Anniversary

The US National Security Archives has declassified previously secret material related to a series of nuclear bomb tests on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in 1946 that exposed many US servicemen to radiation and left the island uninhabitable forever. The bulk of documents, photos and unedited film footage related to Operation Crossroads nuclear tests was published on July 22, on…