In 1954, the United States detonated Castle Bravo at Bikini Atoll expecting a far smaller blast, but the weapon exploded with a 15-megaton yield and became the largest nuclear test in U.S. history.

At first glance, the coral-trimmed Bikini Atoll looks like an advert for an idyllic beach holiday. Lost in the Pacific somewhere between Hawaii and The Philippines – it’s five hours by plane from ...

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Bikini Atoll looks like a perfect tropical paradise, but almost nobody can live there — because it became a real-world nuclear test site. In the 1940s and 50s, multiple atomic and hydrogen bomb tests ...