TURNING POINTS · 1946–1958
Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
The 1954 Castle Bravo test, the most powerful the United States ever detonated, left a crater in the reef. The islanders have not been able to return to live there permanently.
The story, as a puzzle
An atoll emptied for the bomb.
Between 1946 and 1958, the United States carried out 23 nuclear tests at this Pacific atoll, after moving its inhabitants elsewhere. Pin the atoll.
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