A What and Why RI reader wrote in, asking, “Was there really a nuclear explosion in Rhode Island years and years ago?” There was, and Wood River Junction is where it happened. In 1961 ...

MAJURO, Marshall Islands ... Kwajalein Atoll, 400 kilometers southeast of Bikini, in 1968. His family had arrived there after relocating repeatedly as a result of the impact of the nuclear ...

The United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958. In a hydrogen bomb testing at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954, islanders were exposed to the radioactive ...

The US hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952 Archive ... A huge concrete dome covers the site on Runit Island in the Marshall Islands where repeated nuclear tests were carried out But the biggest ...

The Nuclear Test Medal has been ... and then later on there was the fading of the explosion and it was just a massive cloud that drifted across the island." After seeing that, Mr Filby said ...

That sun was a nuclear explosion 1,000 times more powerful than ... Two days later, a US warship dropped anchor in the lagoon by the island and told the people of Rongelap they needed to leave ...