Release Date: October 11, 1988
American Experience
SD
1988
Published on, 1 year ago
American Experience
Radio Bikini 1 Season 2 Episode
55 min
1988
Published on, 1 year ago
While the U.N. debated strategies for control of atomic energy, the U.S. Navy was preparing two highly-publicized nuclear tests. Seven hundred fifty cameras were shipped to Bikini to be used for a major propaganda film. Bikinians had no say about turning their idyllic island into an atomic test site. Forty years later, their home would still be too contaminated to support human life.
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