![USS Independence was blown up alongside 77 other ships as part of atomic tests at Bikini Atoll | Daily Mail Online USS Independence was blown up alongside 77 other ships as part of atomic tests at Bikini Atoll | Daily Mail Online](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/04/29/19/33A9062E00000578-0-image-a-11_1461953006942.jpg)
USS Independence was blown up alongside 77 other ships as part of atomic tests at Bikini Atoll | Daily Mail Online
NavalHistoria - The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3) sinking in Bikini Atoll lagoon after bomb damage sustained during the "Baker" atomic test of Operation Crossroads, at 15:40h, 25 July 1946
![Bikini Atoll is STILL uninhabitable: Radiation on island exceeds safety standards nearly 60 years after nuclear tests | Daily Mail Online Bikini Atoll is STILL uninhabitable: Radiation on island exceeds safety standards nearly 60 years after nuclear tests | Daily Mail Online](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/06/08/00/3509047800000578-0-image-a-12_1465340949804.jpg)
Bikini Atoll is STILL uninhabitable: Radiation on island exceeds safety standards nearly 60 years after nuclear tests | Daily Mail Online
![Quite odd': coral and fish thrive on Bikini Atoll 70 years after nuclear tests | Marshall Islands | The Guardian Quite odd': coral and fish thrive on Bikini Atoll 70 years after nuclear tests | Marshall Islands | The Guardian](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6c22d14ad8fbff4a29394d51d3b14d69731528df/0_389_4608_2765/master/4608.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctYWdlLTIwMTcucG5n&s=ef469b3749e7638249da49f73c620b0d)
Quite odd': coral and fish thrive on Bikini Atoll 70 years after nuclear tests | Marshall Islands | The Guardian
Jurkonytė | Bomb Archive: The Marshall Islands as Cold War Film Set | Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images
Atomic Aerials - This ship was built in 1943, is made entirely out of concrete, participated in both atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads, and is still afloat as
![After 61 Years, U.S. Testing Site For Nuclear Weapons Still 10 Times More Radioactive Than Chernobyl After 61 Years, U.S. Testing Site For Nuclear Weapons Still 10 Times More Radioactive Than Chernobyl](https://imageio.forbes.com/blogs-images/davidbressan/files/2018/06/US_Military_Runit_Dome.jpg?height=811&width=660&fit=bounds)