Commemorating 70 years of the largest weapon the United States has ever tested, the March 1, 1954 Bravo Hydrogen Bomb on Bikini Atoll. At 15 megatons, the blast vaporized 3 islands and was 1,000 times the magnitude of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear weapons dropped on Japan in World War II.
An interesting project called ” Bikini Islands” can give us an insight of a story our students should learn about:
The World Heritage Committee, on August 1, 2010 at its 34th session in Brazil, inscribed the Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site on the World Heritage List.
Bikini Atoll has been included on the li st for the role that tests of atomic weapons at Bikini played in shaping global culture in the second half of the 20th Century. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1339
An interesting video about the topic is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l6Q8Q1smwg