Bikini Atoll nuclear test, 1956. Fireball by a nuclear weapon test detonation over Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, on 21st May 1956. Bikini Atoll was

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Bikini Atoll nuclear test, 1956. Fireball by a nuclear weapon test detonation over Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, on 21st May 1956. Bikini Atoll was the site of a number of above-ground nuclear weapons tests until the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1963.

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