Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

1946: The Bikini Tests and Public Opinion

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...

‘They poisoned us’: grappling with deadly impact of nuclear testing

“They poisoned us,” Hinamoeura Cross, a 37-year-old Tahitian parliamentarian who was aged seven when France detonated its ...

Decades of nuclear tests linked to 4 mn premature deaths globally, report says

From Pacific islands to global fallout, a new report traces how decades of nuclear testing left a silent health crisis that ...
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From Oak Ridge to Hiroshima: One family’s memories of the Atomic Age

An atomic bomb test at Bikini Lagoon. Marshall Islands, July 1946. Today is the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and the first use of an atomic bomb in war, in this case by the United ...
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Field notes on Crossroads Project, atomic bomb, to Marshall Islands in the Pacific from Feb. 13, 1946 to

This journal was kept by Leonard P. Schultz during his work for Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946. Schultz participated in surveying fauna before and after the atomic bomb tests. The ...