Transcript Bikini Atoll

Bikini Atoll
Jordan Kiwacz
Martin Shea
Braedan Smith
History
• In July 1947, after the first atomic
weapons testing at Bikini Atoll, the
United States entered into an
agreement with the United Nations
to govern the Trust Territory of the
Pacific Islands as a strategic
trusteeship territory.
History
• trusteeship
territory
consisted of
20,000 islands
over 3,000,000
miles over North
pacific on July
23, 1947
History
• Testing occurred between 1946
and 1962
• Many Islands that were
bombed still had inhabitants
living there, the nuclear
Fallout effected many that
were not devastated by the
bombs initial impact
Nukes
were
and
are
bad…
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Real
Bikini Atoll
• Bikini Atoll consists of 23 islands
Bikini Atoll
• "Bikini Atoll has conserved direct
tangible evidence .. conveying the
power of .. nuclear tests, i.e. the
sunken ships sent to the bottom of
the lagoon by the tests in 1946 and
the gigantic Bravo crater.... Through
its history, the atoll symbolises the
dawn of the nuclear age, despite its
paradoxical image of peace and of
earthly paradise.“
-UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Bikini Atoll
• Bikini Atoll was the site of twenty
three nuclear weapons tests
between 1946 and 1958.
• Fallout spread through the air and
water in this region, spreading
radiation and radioactive
contamination.
Godzilla
• 23
crewmembers
of the Japanese
fishing boat
observed the
nuclear testing.
This created a
political
scandal in
Japan that
would inspire
the premise for
the movie
Godzilla.
Outcome
outcome
• In 1968 the United States declared
Bikini habitable and started
bringing people back to their
homes in the early 1970s. But, in
1978 the islanders were removed
again when strontium-90 in their
bodies reached dangerous levels.