Codenamed Ivy Mike, the 82 tonne-weapon was detonated in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. It had an explosive power of 10 megatons. The US hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952 Archive news ...

On November 1, 1952, the US tested Ivy Mike over the Marshall Islands. Ivy Mike was the world's first hydrogen bomb and had a yield of 10.4 megatons, almost 700 times stronger than the bombs used ...

Matashichi Oishi, a long-time anti-nuclear activist and victim of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, died on March 7. He was 87. Oishi, born in Shizuoka ...

In the Marshall Islands, which has jurisdiction over Bikini Atoll, March 1 is a national holiday to remember its own victims of the hydrogen bomb. At a ceremony in Majuro, the capital, Jess Gasper ...

Cary Yan (50) and Gina Zhou (34) bribed politicians to try and create a special zone in the Marshall Islands ... an area abandoned following US hydrogen bomb testing in the 1950s.

Over the 12-year period that followed World War Two, the United States tested dozens of nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands ... archiving testimony of atomic bomb survivors, known in Japan ...