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Atomic Bomb At Bikini Atoll...
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July 25, 1946
LEOMINSTER DAILY ENTERPRISE, Massachusetts, July 25, 1946
* Bikini Atoll
* Atomic Bomb... Under Water Explosion
This 12 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page: "Tells of Bomb Blow" and "Underwater Blast Appears to Be More Lethal to Ships Than Air Burst of July" with great photo of the famous explosion (see images).
Other news, sports, and advertisements of the day are included. This issue has minor spine wear, but is otherwise in good condition.
wikipedia notes: Bikini Atoll (also known as Pikinni Atoll) is an uninhabited 2.3-square-mile (6.0 km²) atoll in one of the Micronesian Islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of Republic of the Marshall Islands. It consists of 36 islands surrounding a 229.4-square-mile (594.1 km²) lagoon. As part of the Pacific Proving Grounds it was the site of more than 20 nuclear weapons tests between 1946 and 1958, including the first test of a practical dry fuel hydrogen bomb in 1952.
The navigator and explorer Otto von Kotzebue named Bikini Atoll Eschscholtz Atoll after the scientist Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz.
Operation Crossroads Event Baker explosion
Operation Crossroads Event Baker explosion
Preceding the nuclear tests, the indigenous population was relocated to Rongerik Atoll. The United States government enrolled some of the Marshallese into a secret medical experiment called Project 4.1. The intent of the project was to study the effects of radiation on human beings. Government and mainstream historical sources point to the study being organized on March 6 or March 7, 1954, six days after the Bravo shot. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, some of the original islanders returned from Kili Island but were later removed because of the high radioactivity.
* Bikini Atoll
* Atomic Bomb... Under Water Explosion
This 12 page newspaper has two column headlines on the front page: "Tells of Bomb Blow" and "Underwater Blast Appears to Be More Lethal to Ships Than Air Burst of July" with great photo of the famous explosion (see images).
Other news, sports, and advertisements of the day are included. This issue has minor spine wear, but is otherwise in good condition.
wikipedia notes: Bikini Atoll (also known as Pikinni Atoll) is an uninhabited 2.3-square-mile (6.0 km²) atoll in one of the Micronesian Islands in the Pacific Ocean, part of Republic of the Marshall Islands. It consists of 36 islands surrounding a 229.4-square-mile (594.1 km²) lagoon. As part of the Pacific Proving Grounds it was the site of more than 20 nuclear weapons tests between 1946 and 1958, including the first test of a practical dry fuel hydrogen bomb in 1952.
The navigator and explorer Otto von Kotzebue named Bikini Atoll Eschscholtz Atoll after the scientist Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz.
Operation Crossroads Event Baker explosion
Operation Crossroads Event Baker explosion
Preceding the nuclear tests, the indigenous population was relocated to Rongerik Atoll. The United States government enrolled some of the Marshallese into a secret medical experiment called Project 4.1. The intent of the project was to study the effects of radiation on human beings. Government and mainstream historical sources point to the study being organized on March 6 or March 7, 1954, six days after the Bravo shot. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, some of the original islanders returned from Kili Island but were later removed because of the high radioactivity.
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