Brookhaven team minimized risks in return to Bikini
Bravo test on Bikini Atoll in 1954
On Bikini Atoll, Dr. Robert Conard strolled along an empty beach, a cameraman shooting an industrial film following his every move. On that day, nearly 20 years after the 1954 "Bravo" blast was detonated on Bikini, Conard wanted the world to know it was OK for the atoll's nuclear exiles to return.
Bikini's residents had been evacuated since 1946, when the first of 23 U.S. nuclear-bomb tests...
