Nuclear tests in the Pacific

The United States, Britain and France tested more than three hundred nuclear weapons in the Pacific and Australia. People were moved from their islands, and some were exposed to fallout.

Date: 1946 to 1996XII · The world since 1945
Place: Bikini Atoll · Maralinga · Moruroa · KiritimatiOceania
Laid out as: A theme across timeOne idea followed through the eras it crosses.
Lessons: 6 planned, none written yet
Themes: War, conflict and security
Environment, climate and disasters
Medicine, health and disease
Peoples, cultures and civilisations

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

IBikini Atoll, 1946
IICastle Bravo
IIIMaralinga
IVMoruroa
VProtest and the Rainbow Warrior
VILiving with the legacy

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

Yami Lester
Darlene Keju
Oscar Temaru

Objects

Survey records
Protest banners

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestry Our species and the Old Stone Age Farming and the New Stone Age First cities and the Bronze Age The Iron Age and growing states The classical world After the empires Medieval networks and empires Oceans crossed Revolutions and the first factories Industry, empire and world war The world since 1945

1946 to 1996. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?