Amchitka - Wikipedia
With the pullout of military forces from Amchitka in 1950, the Department of Defense (DoD) initially considered the island for nuclear testing planned for 1951, under Operation Windstorm. …
The Unknown Legacy of Alaska's Atomic Tests
Jan 18, 2001 · In 1964, officials with the Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission needed a place to test nuclear devices that were too large for the Nevada Test …
Amchitka Island - Nuclear Princeton
In 1965, the US conducted the first nuclear explosion on Amchitka. An 80-kiloton nuclear blast was set off underground. Scientists used this blast for research purposes. It was analyzed by …
The U.S. government conducted three underground nuclear tests on Amchitka; the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), a predecessor of the …
Cannikin: The Nuclear Bomb that Split an Island in Two
Jul 25, 2023 · The Cannikin test was carried out by the United States on November 6, 1971, on Amchitka Island in Alaska. The test involved the detonation of a 5-megaton thermonuclear …
U.S. nuclear testing's devastating legacy lingers, 30 years after ...
Sep 22, 2022 · Tests of the U.S.’s biggest nuclear megaweapons were reserved for sites in the Pacific, including one device in the Marshall Islands a thousand times more powerful than the …
Amchitka: the founding voyage - Greenpeace International
May 14, 2007 · In 1971, a small group of activists set sail to the Amchitka island off Alaska to try and stop a US nuclear weapons test. The money for the mission was raised with a concert, …
The otters of Amchitka: Alaskan nuclear testing and the birth of …
Dec 12, 2012 · Between 1965 and 1971, the USA executed three underground nuclear tests on the remote Aleutian island of Amchitka. Public outcry over these tests, and the US …
Nuclear Weapons Testing
Between 1965 and 1967, the US Government exploded nuclear weapons on Amchitka Island in the Aleutian island chain in southwest Alaska. Amchitka Island is the traditional homeland of …
Amchitka Island, Alaska: moving towards long term stewardship
Amchitka Island, Alaska, is a historical underground nuclear test site. Three underground tests were conducted there by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, now US Department …