Bikini Atoll, The Marshall Islands
Lost somewhere in the ocean, this island looks like a paradise, doesn’t it? But Bikini Atoll was actually home to numerous nuclear testing programs that turned the picturesque island of Bikini into a radioactive wasteland. The inhabitants were forced to abandon their homes, and even today this remains hazardous for living organisms: the abnormally high level of radiation recorded here can cause cancer.
Between 1946 and 1958, 23 nuclear devices were detonated by the United States at seven test sites located on the reef, inside the atoll, in the air, or underwater.
In 1996, the Bikini Council authorized diving operations as a means to generate income for Bikini islanders currently and upon their eventual return. The tours, limited to fewer than a dozen experienced divers a week, cost more than US$5000 and include detailed histories of the nuclear tests.
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Bikini Atoll in Majuro, Marshall Islands
Bikini Atoll, sometimes known as Eschscholtz Atoll between the 1800s and 1946, is a coral reef in the Marshall Islands consisting of 23 islands surrounding a 594.1 km2 central lagoon. The atoll's inhabitants were relocated in 1946, after which the islands and lagoon were the site of 23 nuclear tests by the United States until 1958.
The atoll is at the northern end of the Ralik Chain, approximately 850 kilometres northwest of the capital Majuro. Three families were resettled on Bikini island in 1970, totaling about 100 residents. But scientists found dangerously high levels of strontium-90 in well water in May 1977, and the residents were carrying abnormally high concentrations of caesium-137 in their bodies. They were removed in 1980. The atoll is occasionally visited today by divers and a few scientists, and is occupied by a handful of caretakers.
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Nuclear Sharks ... Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.
Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as seen on Discovery Channel Shark Week 2016’s “Nuclear Sharks.
Grandson to legendary underwater explorer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau, Philippe Cousteau, and his wife Ashlan Gorse Cousteau travel with marine biologist Luke Tipple to Bikini Atoll to explore a marine environment once destroyed by nuclear testings.
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Marshall Islands - Glimpses of Bikini Atoll
Scenes and views of the island during my visit in December 2011. Includes dives on 2 wrecks from the atomic testing in the 50's.
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Bikini Atoll/Marshall Islands Nuclear Testing 67 Bombs Experiments
Bikini Atoll/Marshall Islands Nuclear Testing 67 Bombs Experiments
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The quoted sentence conveys the idea that the mind is a kind of last refuge of personal freedom and self-determination. While the body can easily be subject to domination and control by others, our mind, along with our thoughts, beliefs and convictions, are to a large extent beyond external constraint. Yet, with advances in neural engineering, brain imaging and pervasive neurotechnology, the mind might no longer be such an unassailable fortress. Today, pervasive neurotechnology applications include brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) for device control or real-time neuromonitoring, neurosensor-based vehicle operator systems, cognitive training tools, electrical and magnetic brain stimulation, wearables for mental wellbeing, and virtual reality systems. Mental decoders are capable of decoding mental states and translating them into observable outputs such as text, verbal signals or graphic images. For example, Herff and Mirkovic have independently demonstrated the effectiveness of a decoder capable of reconstructing speech from brain waves. While these advances can be greatly beneficial for individuals and society, they can also be misused and create unprecedented threats to the freedom of the mind and to the individuals' capacity to freely govern their behavior.
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Bikini Atoll, Marshal Islands
A short trip to Bikini Island in the Bikini Atoll, Marshal Islands
Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
Children's Music for Learning : Hostile Terrain : Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
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This Concrete Dome Holds A Leaking Toxic Timebomb | Foreign Correspondent
Thousands of cubic metres of radioactive waste lies buried under a concrete dome on the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the legacy of over a decade of US nuclear tests in the Pacific.
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The Marshall Islands, a nation that fears it's on the brink of extinction
Residents of the island country are on the frontlines fighting for climate reform, racing against the clock to save their home and culture from rising sea levels and violent weather.
Bikini Day 2019
Celebrating Bikini Day on Kili.
Marshall Islands: A third of the nation has left for the US
A third of the Marshall Islands’ population has moved to the U.S., leaving a country reeling from high unemployment and the looming effects of climate change. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Mike Taibbi reports. This story is part of an ongoing series called Chasing the Dream, on poverty and opportunity in America, and was funded in part by Pacific Islanders in Communications.
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Scuba Diving Bikini Atoll
After the Second World War, the USA collected a ‘mock’ naval fleet for the purpose of testing the impact of different atomic bombs on a large fleet. These nuclear bomb tests were performed in several remote locations in the South Pacific Ocean, known as the Pacific Proving Grounds. Bikini Atoll was appointed one of the designated testing areas within the Marshall Islands. Between 1946 and 1958, not less than 23 atomic bombs were tested at Bikini Atoll, which resulted in a unique selection of shipwrecks from the US, Germany and Japan consisting of war battleships, cruisers, and an aircraft carrier.
More than 60 years later, the shipwrecks remain equally as impressive while they have become home to many kinds of corals and fish species. As a result, Bikini Atoll has become the ultimate wreck diving for the true fans! This exclusive and unparalleled diving destination is undisputedly ranked first on any serious wreck & technical divers’ bucket list. This is well justified; nowhere else on earth you will be able to dive into such a unique collection of historic battleships, cruisers, as well as the world famous USS Saratoga aircraft carrier with its 270m (888ft.) flight deck. For this reason, Bikini Atoll was declared the first UNESCO World Heritage site for the Marshall Islands archipelago in 2010.
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Nuclear Victims Day Feb 28, 2006 - Majuro, Marshall Islands
On this day, Erika Strong's and Lindsey Horton's Marshall Islands High School classes went on a field trip to participate in the Nuclear Victims Day 2006 activities at Assumption High, where students put together displays. Learn a little about this little-known slice of U.S. history in the Pacific involving nuclear testing and the Marshallese people who continue to remember to this day.
Its a bit rough, evident in the space ___ where a number is supposed to be to indicate the number of nuclear tests conducted by the U.S. in the Marshall Islands between 1946 - 1958 (not 1954 - 1963, as indicated in the clip). That ___ is supposed to be 67.
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The most famous test, the Bravo shot, detonated at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954, was a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb more than 1,000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. From its $20 billion investment in the NTP, the U.S. gained a much more sophisticated understanding of nuclear weapons and the health effects of exposure to excessive doses of radioactive fallout. Consequently, the U.S. bolstered its military and political position in the early years of the Cold War. - excerpt from rmiembassyus.org
USAG Kwajalein Atoll - A Place Like No Other || Aerial Highlights
USAG-KA is located in the Marshall Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. While being key for US national security, its remoteness and location allow for many unique times in your not-so-typical 9-5pm job. Please enjoy some of the memories that I have collected over the past couple years while living on this amazing two-mile-long piece of coral.
All drone shots of Kwaj were taken before the Army drone ban (pre-summer 2017).
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Inseguire Il Sole Chasing The Sun
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Bikini Atoll: Into The Atomic Abyss
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In the years after World War II, the Marshall Islands’ remote Bikini Atoll lit up with some of the most powerful nuclear tests ever conducted. These blasts left behind the wreckage of more than 70 Japanese and American warships which rest on the ocean floor to this day. Join the ALUCIA sub team as they explore these haunting ghosts of the Nuclear Age.
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