Enewetak Atoll (/ɛˈniːwəˌtɔːk, ˌɛnɪˈwiːtɔːk/; also spelled Eniwetok Atoll or sometimes Eniewetok; Marshallese: Ānewetak, [ænʲeːwɛːdˠɑk], or Āne-wātak...
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Runit Island (category Enewetak Atoll)
Runit Island (/ˈruːnɪt/) is one of forty islands of the Enewetak Atoll of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The island is the site of a radioactive...
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Ivy Mike (category Enewetak Atoll nuclear explosive tests)
November 1, 1952, by the United States on the island of Elugelab in Enewetak Atoll, in the now independent island nation of the Marshall Islands, as part...
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Authorities decided to use Enewetak Atoll as a second nuclear weapons test site, and they relocated Enewetak's residents to Ujelang Atoll to the homes built for...
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Pacific Proving Grounds (category Enewetak Atoll)
fallout over a wide area, including the Enewetak Atoll, Rongerik Atoll, Ailinginae Atoll, and Rongelap Atoll. The U.S. Navy evacuated the islanders within...
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operations in U.S. history. The Operation Greenhouse shots of May 1951, at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, included the first boosted fission weapon test...
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Battle of Eniwetok (redirect from Battle of Eniwetok Atoll)
Pacific campaign of World War II, fought from 17 to 23 February 1944 on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The invasion of Eniwetok followed the American...
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stopped at a lush atoll, which Saavedra called Los Jardines (English: The Gardens). The atoll may have been Bikini or Enewetak Atoll. The Spaniards went...
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and 1958, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll and Enewetak Atoll. The U.S. government formed the Congress of Micronesia in 1965...
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Elugelab (category Enewetak Atoll)
(Marshallese: Āllokļap, [ællʲoɡʷ(o)lˠɑpʲ]), was an island, part of the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It was destroyed in the world's first full-scale...
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magnitude lower than that of element 99, and so contaminated coral from the Enewetak atoll (where the test had taken place) was shipped to the University of California...
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of atolls and isolated islands in the chain: Ailinginae Atoll Ailinglaplap Atoll Bikini Atoll Ebon Atoll Enewetak Atoll Jabat Island Jaluit Atoll Kili...
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the Ivy Mike nuclear test. The test was done on November 1, 1952, at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Ocean and was the first successful test of a thermonuclear...
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Operation Hardtack I (category Enewetak Atoll nuclear explosive tests)
a barge southwest of Enjebi Island, at Enewetak Atoll. 4,000 feet (1.22 km) from the nearest land at Enewetak. The cloud rose to 50,000 feet (15.2 km)...
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Majuro and Enewetak Atoll, where gusts of 80 mph (130 km/h) were reported and one person was injured. Nuclear cleanup operations on Enewetak in the wake...
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Operation Redwing (category Enewetak Atoll nuclear explosive tests)
detonations from May to July 1956. They were conducted at Bikini and Enewetak atolls by Joint Task Force 7 (JTF7). The entire operation followed Project...
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Operation Castle (category Enewetak Atoll nuclear explosive tests)
weapons testing had moved to the Enewetak Atoll to take advantage of generally larger islands and deeper water. Both atolls were part of the American Pacific...
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" On July 21, 1950, while serving with the 7th Engineer Brigade in Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands, where he had recently been transferred, Woods died...
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Operation Ivy (category Enewetak Atoll nuclear explosive tests)
before Upshot–Knothole. The two explosions were staged in late 1952 at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Proving Ground in the Marshall Islands. The Operation...
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test of an engineered device, codenamed Ivy Mike, was tested at the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 1, 1952 (local date), also by the...
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thermonuclear weapon, Ivy Mike, was detonated on 1 November 1952 at Enewetak Atoll and yielded 10 Megatons of explosive force. The first thermonuclear...
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Naval Base Eniwetok (redirect from Naval Base Enewetak)
Naval Base Eniwetok was a major United States Navy base located at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, during World War II. The base was built to support...
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Majuro (redirect from Majuro Atoll)
September 11, 2021. Retrieved September 11, 2021. "The Natural history of Enewetak Atoll". Internet Archive. Oak Ridge, Tenn. : U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office...
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function this way in the battle, with aircraft from the atoll attacking Japanese carriers and the atoll being attacked in turn. Malta and Iceland were sometimes...
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Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty of 1996. The Baker nuclear test at Bikini Atoll in July 1946 was a shallow underwater explosion, part of Operation Crossroads...
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Islands in 1986. The island became a relocation center for the people of Enewetak Atoll in 1947 (due to atomic tests on that island from 1948 to 1958). The...
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site of the Wasauksing First Nation Parry Island (Pacific), part of Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific Ocean and a fighting theatre in World War II Parry Island...
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Operation Greenhouse (category Enewetak Atoll nuclear explosive tests)
bombs). Conducted at the new Pacific Proving Ground, on islands of the Enewetak Atoll, it mounted the devices on large steel towers to simulate air bursts...
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Ivy King (category Enewetak Atoll nuclear explosive tests)
the bomb over a point 2,000 feet (610 m) north of Runit Island in the Enewetak atoll, resulting in a 500 kiloton explosion at 1,480 feet (450 m). The tropopause...
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Enewetak Auxiliary Airfield is a private airport at Enewetak on Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands. This airport is assigned the location identifier ENT...
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