Declassified Government Photos That Show a Different Side of History

Dropping Nukes Near the Marshall Islands

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In 1946, the U.S. military dropped a few nuclear bombs in Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands to study the effects of nuclear weapons on naval warships. Unfortunately, the radiation levels on the aquatic testing site and its effects on sea life made them ultimately realize that the tests were a bad idea.

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