bikini atoll (marshall islands)

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The bomb

In 1944, when the Americans liberate Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that in two years he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.

Bombs over Bikini

the world's first nuclear disaster
Explores the disaster of "Bravo," the twelfth nuclear bomb test-detonated by the United States in the region of the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the fallout of which drifted on the wind and radioactively contaminated the island of Rongelap. Explores the aftermath of the disaster and its effects on the region and its citizens, who suffered radiation poisoning and to this day cannot return to their ancestral homes.

The bomb

1995
In 1944, when the Americans liberate Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that in two years he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.

The bomb

1997
In 1944, when the Americans liberate Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that in two years he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.

The bomb

2007
In 1944, when the Americans liberate Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that in two years he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.
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