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| Bikini Atoll | |
| Category: | Island |
| Region: | Pacific Ocean |
| Locale: | Marshall Islands |
Bikini Atoll is a coral reef atoll comprising twenty-three islands across 3.4 square miles. Beginning in 1946, the United States conducted a series of nuclear tests on Bikini Atoll, which involved the detonation of twenty-three atomic devices between the close of World War II up through 1956. History would have you believe that nothing serious ever came from these tests, but film history would say otherwise.
Exposure to ambient radiation from the tests is what caused three bio-genetically created animals known as Dorats to merge together and grow into the monstrous King Ghidorah. [1] It has also been theorized that these same tests may have caused the hatching of an eons old egg buried underground to give birth to the winged monster known as Rodan. [2]
Another story states that the 1946 incident at the Atoll was actually military forces using nuclear weapons in an effort to destroy a M.U.T.O. that would later come to be known as Godzilla. [3][4] Whatever story you choose to believe, there is no denying that Bikini Atoll plays a large role in the spawning of some of the world's most infamous monsters.
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- ↑ Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
- ↑ Rodan (1956)
- ↑ Godzilla (2014)
- ↑ Godzilla: Awakening 1
