Bikini, Marshall Islands Bikini is a small coral island ... concluded that staying on the atoll was not dangerous. At the same time, they noted the increased radioactivity of food from the ...

When the air quality deteriorates, residents and tourists are required to wear gas masks, making it one of the most dangerous islands to visit. As a historic nuclear testing site, Bikini Atoll is ...

The present assessment was requested by the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, with the purpose of obtaining an independent view of the radiological situation on Bikini Atoll, the ...

MAJURO, Marshall Islands--A miniature replica of a Japanese tuna fishing boat whose crew encountered fallout from a U.S. thermonuclear test at Bikini Atoll in 1954 now takes pride of place in the ...

For many, the South Pacific is synonymous with paradise sun, beaches and of course, the bikini. But the bikini, or rather the island Bikini, also stands for a disastrous series of nuclear tests ...

Matashichi Oishi, a long-time anti-nuclear activist and victim of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, died on March 7. He was 87. Oishi, born in Shizuoka ...