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  2. Bikini Atoll - Wikipedia

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    Bikini Atoll (/ ˈ b ɪ k ɪ ˌ n iː / or / b ɪ ˈ k iː n i /; Marshallese: Pikinni, [pʲiɡinnʲi], lit. ' coconut place '), [2] known as Eschscholtz Atoll between the 19th century and 1946, [3] is a coral reef in the Marshall Islands consisting of 23 islands surrounding a 229.4-square-mile (594.1 km 2) central lagoon.

  3. Pacific Proving Grounds - Wikipedia

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    [9] [10] The payments began in 1987 with $2.4 million paid annually to the entire Bikini population, while the remaining $2.6 million is paid into The Bikini Claims Trust Fund. This trust is intended to exist in perpetuity and to provide the islanders a 5% payment from the trust annually. [10]

  4. Kili Island - Wikipedia

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    Kili Island or Kili Atoll (Marshallese: Kōle, [1]) is a small, 81 hectares (200 acres) (0.93 square kilometers (0.36 sq mi)) island located in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. As of 2021, 415 people lived on the island, [2] many of whom were descended from islanders who originally lived on Bikini Atoll.

  5. Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal - Wikipedia

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    The Wilson cloud from test Baker, situated just offshore from Bikini Island at top of the picture.. From June 30, 1946, to August 18, 1958, the United States detonated sixty-seven nuclear bombs with a total yield of 109 megatons of TNT (460 PJ) on the Bikini and Enewet atolls of the Marshall Islands, resulting in significant damage to the atolls and nearby areas.

  6. Difference Maker: Vina Mikkelsen keeps the memory of Pearl ...

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    Emry Dinman, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. ... In 1946, a year after the war ended, he watched the first U.S. nuclear bomb tests in Bikini Atoll. He was stationed in Billings, where one of ...

  7. Compact of Free Association - Wikipedia

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    The Compact Trust Fund set up to replace US financial aid underperformed because of the Great Recession. [24] The military and civil defense provisions remained until 2015. [25] An amended Compact, enacted December 17, 2003, as Public Law 108-188, provided financial assistance to the Marshall Islands and Micronesia through 2023.

  8. ‘Godzilla Minus One’ Review: The Kaiju Superstar Delivers ...

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    Courtesy of U.S. Bikini Atoll nuclear tests, a much larger and angrier Godzilla — replete with all-new, radiation charged retractable spiked scales — awakens and makes a beeline for Tokyo.

  9. Culture of the Marshall Islands - Wikipedia

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    Payments made in the 20th century to descendants of Bikini Island residents as reparations for damage to the Bikini Atoll and the islanders' way of life have elevated their income relative to other Marshall Island residents. It has caused some Bikini islanders to become economically dependent on the payments from the trust fund.