Chris White wrote:
>
> These tests were performed near the Bikini Islands (an atoll, actually).
> That is where the name for the wildly popular (at least in my book) bathing
> suit style came from: ironic...
>
> Maybe there was some collective subconscious thing about UV ray poisoning
> associated with the naming...
>
The bathing suit was named AFTER the test, not the atoll. The thing was
it was supposed to have a "1 megaton effect on the male" or words to
that effect. You have to recall this was BEFORE anybody, much less the
general populas thought that above ground testing was a bad idea.
Received on Thu Aug 28 1997 - 18:48:59 UTC
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