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July 25, 1946: the Day the United States Caused the First Nuclear Disaster in History on some Pacific Islands

Summary by Billiken
On July 25, 1946, just a year after the end of World War II, the United States conducted one of its first nuclear tests in peacetime. The scenario chosen was the remote Bikini atoll, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, part of the Marshall Islands archipelago. That essay was part of Operation Crossroads and marked the beginning of an atomic test stage that would last for more than a decade and would have a devastating impact on the environment a…
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On July 25, 1946, just a year after the end of World War II, the United States conducted one of its first nuclear tests in peacetime. The scenario chosen was the remote Bikini atoll, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, part of the Marshall Islands archipelago. That essay was part of Operation Crossroads and marked the beginning of an atomic test stage that would last for more than a decade and would have a devastating impact on the environment a…

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Billiken broke the news in on Friday, July 25, 2025.
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