MAJURO, Marshall Islands--A miniature replica of a Japanese tuna fishing boat whose crew encountered fallout from a U.S. thermonuclear test at Bikini Atoll in 1954 now takes pride of place in the ...
SWAINS ISLAND » It’s eerily quiet on this tiny, uninhabited South Pacific atoll — almost no noise except for the aki­aki birds squawking in the trees and the wind rustling through the palms. Abandoned ...
For some, the name "Bikini Bottom" will be synonymous with a pineapple under the sea — the fictional home of SpongeBob SquarePants. But the underwater world of the quirky cartoon character is based on ...
Operation Crossroads, which had its first big event–the dropping of a nuclear bomb–on July 1, 1946, was just the beginning of the nuclear testing that Bikini Atoll would be subjected to. When the ...
Members of the Jennings family Swains Island expedition unload supplies to spend several days on island. (Marcel Honore / [email protected]) SWAINS ISLAND » It’s eerily quiet on this tiny, ...