TIL that the bikini is named after Bikini Atoll, a nuclear weapons testing site, because the creator thought it would provoke in onlookers a similar reaction to gazing at an atomic bomb :
HISTORY - During the 40s and the 50s, Bikini Atoll in the... | Facebook
Bikini Nuclear Test Survivors Demand Compensation | Al Jazeera America
1 July 1946 - 'Test Able', Bikini Atoll: CTBTO Preparatory Commission
They told us it was for the good of mankind': the troubling legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific | South China Morning Post
What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today | by Stanford Magazine | Stanford Magazine | Medium
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Bikini Atoll coral biodiversity resilience five decades after nuclear testing - ScienceDirect
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1 July 1946 - 'Test Able', Bikini Atoll: CTBTO Preparatory Commission
Bikini Atoll nuclear test: 60 years later and islands still unliveable | Marshall Islands | The Guardian
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Bikini Atoll nuclear test: 60 years later and islands still unliveable | Marshall Islands | The Guardian
Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site - Gallery - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Bikini was just the beginning, bombs still threaten the islanders | New Internationalist
Ship disposition for the Bikini Atoll Atomic Test on March 15th, 1946. (680x579) : r/WarshipPorn
Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Remarkable': Scientists amazed by thriving marine life at Bikini Atoll site where 23 atomic bombs were dropped | The Independent | The Independent
Islanders afraid to go home 60 years after Bikini Atoll H-bomb
The double exposure of the Marshall Islands - Architectural Review
I wore my first bikini aged 51 after 50lbs weight loss
Bikini Atoll nuclear test: 60 years later and islands still unliveable | Marshall Islands | The Guardian
A map of ships present at the Bikini Atoll Nuclear Bomb Test : r/WoWs_Legends
Radiation is leaking out of US nuclear test site, say Marshall Islanders | World | The Times
