THE sum of an area’s familiar parts is by no means its identifiable whole. To many Americans who served in the Pacific during the Second World War, the names of Peleliu, Saipan, and Kwajalein are and ...

NOW that President Truman has announced that there have been three atomic explosions off Eniwetok Atoll and has implied that further explosions will occur out there, I wonder what the old place looks ...

The Atomic Energy Commission announced this week that it had picked shell-blasted Eniwetok atoll, just west of Bikini in the Marshall Islands chain, as its Pacific proving ground for atomic weapons ...

When did the Russians start testing? The Russians exploded their first nuclear device in September 1949, only four years and two months after the first U.S. test at Alamogordo, N. Mex.. in July 1945.

In early 1944, American forces launched a surprise amphibious assault on Eniwetok, encountering unexpectedly fierce Japanese defenses hidden in tunnels, pillboxes, and coral reefs, resulting in a ...

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Editor’s note: Feb. 19, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Iwo Jima. In February 2020, Military Times interviewed Marine Corps veteran and Iwo Jima survivor Don Harris.

DURING March 18–30, 1961, 308 samples of soil, water, algae, land plants, plankton, fish and invertebrates were collected at Eniwetok Atoll for assay of radioactivity. Two of the samples, taken from ...

Robert James “Bob” Keeley, was born at home on the Keeley farm on July 5, 1932 where, except for a few years while in the service and shortly thereafter, he lived his entire life. He passed away ...