Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

1946: The Bikini Tests and Public Opinion

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...
Houston Public Media

From Oak Ridge to Hiroshima: One family’s memories of the Atomic Age

An atomic bomb test at Bikini Lagoon. Marshall Islands, July 1946. Today is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and the first use of an atomic bomb in war, in this case by the United ...

The US military set off its largest nuclear explosion in testing 69 years ago, but scientists had no idea the blast would be that big

The Castle Bravo nuclear test produced an explosive yield of 15 megatons and was 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
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Field notes on Crossroads Project, atomic bomb, to Marshall Islands in the Pacific from Feb. 13, 1946 to

This journal was kept by Leonard P. Schultz during his work for Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946. Schultz participated in surveying fauna before and after the atomic bomb tests. The ...