![Remarkable': Scientists amazed by thriving marine life at Bikini Atoll site where 23 atomic bombs were dropped | The Independent | The Independent Remarkable': Scientists amazed by thriving marine life at Bikini Atoll site where 23 atomic bombs were dropped | The Independent | The Independent](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/10/28/19/pg-24-bikini-atoll-2-cc.jpg?width=1200)
Remarkable': Scientists amazed by thriving marine life at Bikini Atoll site where 23 atomic bombs were dropped | The Independent | The Independent
![Bikini Atoll is STILL uninhabitable: Radiation on island exceeds safety standards nearly 60 years after nuclear tests | Daily Mail Online Bikini Atoll is STILL uninhabitable: Radiation on island exceeds safety standards nearly 60 years after nuclear tests | Daily Mail Online](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/06/08/00/3508E66D00000578-3630359-image-m-55_1465342057965.jpg)
Bikini Atoll is STILL uninhabitable: Radiation on island exceeds safety standards nearly 60 years after nuclear tests | Daily Mail Online
HISTORY - During the 40s and the 50s, Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands had been the site of 23 nuclear tests. In 1946, The United States ordered the Bikini Atoll residents
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70th Anniversary of Operation Crossroads Atomic Tests in Bikini Atoll, July 1946 | National Security Archive
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