First Nuclear Test at Bikini Atoll (Operation Crossroads)
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On July 1, 1946, the U.S. detonated the first postwar nuclear weapon at Bikini Atoll in Operation Crossroads, having removed the Bikini people months earlier. It began a decade of testing that left Bikini uninhabitable — a legacy continued by Castle Bravo in 1954.