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Operation Crossroads: The nuclear test that gave the world the word 'bikini'
In July 1946, a joint US Army-Navy task force tested two atomic weapons at Bikini Atoll in the Marshal Islands.
Mark Eastwood
· Sep 11, 2016 · 09:30 pm
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