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No. 472

… BOOM! It’s the 1950s.

Above, a nuclear weapons test in Enewetak Atoll, 1951. Throughout the 1950s, the US conducted above-ground testing of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands and a few other sites in the Pacific Ocean. The testing was part of the race to develop a hydrogen bomb, a second-generation nuclear weapon much more powerful than the atom…