English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
הורד מילון זה
Pacific Proving Grounds
The
Pacific Proving Grounds
was the name used to describe a number of sites in the
Marshall Islands
and a few other sites in the
Pacific Ocean
, used by the
United States
to conduct
nuclear testing
at various times between 1946 and 1962. In July 1947, after the first atomic weapons testing at
Bikini Atoll
, the United States entered into an agreement with the
United Nations
to govern the
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
as a strategic
trusteeship territory
. The Trust Territory is composed of 2,000 islands spread over of the
North Pacific Ocean
. On July 23, 1947, the
United States Atomic Energy Commission
announced the establishment of the Pacific Proving Grounds.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License