Bikini Island

Bikini Island

BIKINI ISLAND, Marshall Islands - Photo shows a ravaged room of an abandoned nuclear test observation post on Bikini Island in the Pacific on Aug. 27, 2011. The United States conducted nearly 70 nuclear bomb tests in the 1940s and 1950s in the vicinity of Bikini Atoll.

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  • ILEA001162085
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  • 2011/8/28 00:00:00
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  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
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  • 2011 Kyodo News
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  • 1889 × 1259 pixel
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