Bikini Atoll

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Bikini Atoll is an atoll in one of the Micronesian Islands in the Pacific Ocean. It was a test site of more than 20 hydrogen and atomic bombs.

Preceding the nuclear tests, the indigenous population was relocated to Rongerik Atoll. The tests began in July 1946.

On May 21, 1956 Bikini Atoll was nearly obliterated by the first airborne explosion of a hydrogen bomb.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, some of the original islanders returned but were removed because of the high radioactivity. In the 1990s, the United States Congress provided $90 million to help decomtaminate and repopulate the island.

Bikini Atoll is also the source of the name of the Bikini swimsuit, but it should be noted that the name of the atoll is pronounced with stress on the first syllable.