Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands was chosen by the United States to test 23 nuclear weapons after the end of World War II, between 1946 and 1958. All 167 of the atoll’s inhabitants were told they ...

Kirk Hays brought TikTok users on a journey around Bikini Atoll, which was used by the U.S. for nuclear bomb testing.

But in the Pacific, residents were all too familiar with nuclear weapons – and the fallout. Rongelap is one of 29 atolls that make up the Marshall Islands, sitting just north of the equator.