Bikini Atoll

In September Right Window will be showing the Plastic Exploding Inevitable PEI, a spawn of the Toxic Reef, aka Bikini Atoll, made from plastic bags and other refused and recycled materials.

The Plastic Exploding Inevitable Dodie Bellamy 2008

In September Right Window will be showing the Plastic Exploding Inevitable PEI, a spawn of the Toxic Reef, aka Bikini Atoll, made from plastic bags and other refused and recycled materials.

Archive 2008-08-01 Dodie Bellamy 2008

With the Bikini Atoll atom bomb test then a top news story, Réard cut his bathing suit from fabric printed with newspaper headlines.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

The initial Bikini Atoll test marked only the fourth time that a nuclear weapon had been detonated, and the first occasion on which one would be exploded without blanket secrecy or wartime stealth.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Any lingering aura of weapons testing seemed to have vanished from the word bikini by the 1960s, when what was left of Bikini Atoll itself was largely forgotten.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

In Marshallese, the language of Bikini Atoll, hello and bye alike are conveyed in the word kwe, which also means love.i In English, the expression bye was once similarly fulsome: God be with you.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

On July 1, 1946, the world was captivated by news pouring out from Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

In the Marshallese language of Bikini Atoll, iju means “star.”

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

In the wake of climate change, Bikini Atoll is slated for submergence under the rising waters of the South Pacific.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

What about the inhabitants of Bikini Atoll, where some of the fewer than eighty thousand people speak varieties of Marshallese, languages of the Austronesian family?

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010