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Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands Sixty years ago today, the United States detonated a hydrogen bomb that altered the landscape, hundreds of lives Stock Photo - Alamy
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HISTORY - During the 40s and the 50s, Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands had been the site of 23 nuclear tests. In 1946, The United States ordered the Bikini Atoll residents
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