After the first 1946 tests the u s. Since then congress has funded a program to compensate veterans and their families 75 000 who participated in these atmospheric nuclear tests who subsequently. Bikini atoll and enewetak atoll a necklace of coral islands in the marshall islands was subjected to repeated nuclear testing campaigns by the u s.
The legacy of the testing program is most evident at enewetak an atoll that took the brunt of the united states late stage nuclear detonations before an international ban on atmospheric. Nuclear tests at bikini atoll marshall islands. Nuclear tests at bikini atoll marshall islands overview of the u s.
Learn about the devastating health effects of the people on the likiep atoll as a result of the u s. The 100 plus indigenous people living on bikini atoll at the time were moved to other islands in order to enable nuclear testing to begin. Government s nuclear testing at bikini atoll in the marshall islands began in 1946 right after the conclusion of world war ii.
Bikini atoll nuclear tests compensation. The marshall islands are marking 60 years since the devastating us hydrogen bomb test at bikini atoll with exiled islanders saying they are too fearful to ever go back because of nuclear. Pikinni pʲiɡinnʲi meaning coconut place sometimes known as eschscholtz atoll between the 1800s and 1946 see etymology section below for history and orthography of the endonym is a coral reef in the marshall islands consisting of 23 islands surrounding a 229 4 square mile 594 1 km 2 central lagoon.
Bikini atoll ˈ b ɪ k ɪ ˌ n iː or b ɪ ˈ k iː n i. The united states was engaged in a cold war nuclear arms race with the soviet union to build more. The test weapons produced a combined fission yield of 42 2 mt of explosive power.
The nuclear testing at bikini atoll program was a series of 23 nuclear weapons detonated by the united states between 1946 and 1958 at seven test sites on the reef itself on the sea in the air and underwater.
