On This Day In History on Nostr: Today in 1958, 66 years ago: on Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands, in the middle of the ...
Today in 1958, 66 years ago: on Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean), the United States detonates its 9,300-kiloton Poplar atomic bomb (the most powerful of Operation Hardtack I). It is the 147th of the 1054 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
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