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Escholtz Islands |
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Escholtz Islands: see Bikini Bikini (bēkē`nē), atoll, c.2 sq mi (5.2 sq km), W central Pacific, one of the Ralik Chain, Marshall Islands . ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In early 1954 then Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announced a policy of massive retaliation, stating, "Local defenses must be reinforced by the further deterrent of massive retaliatory power" On March 1, 1954, the United States detonated a seventeen-megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. It covers Peyssonnel's and Ellis's early studies of the (perfectly named) coral "zoophytes," and Darwin's Theory of Subsidence, which was hotly disputed by several prominent figures, but finally substantiated by the immensely deep cores drilled by the United States Geological Survey in Enewatak and Bikini Atoll lagoons, in preparation for their atomic bomb tests in 1947. The show was dominated physically and metaphorically by Dominic McGill's Model for a Deathwish Generation, 2002, a simmering diorama of Bikini Atoll set between the two hulking hemispheres of a hydrogen device, as abominable and Ozymandian as The Bomb itself. |
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