Eniwetok

[en-uh-wee-tok, uh-nee-wi-tok]

noun

1. an atoll in the NW Marshall Islands: atomic and hydrogen bomb tests 1947–52.

Eniwetok

/ əˈniːwɪˌtɔːk, ˌɛnəˈwiːtɒk /

noun

1. Official name: Enewetak. an atoll in the W Pacific Ocean, in the NW Marshall Islands: taken by the US from Japan in 1944; became a naval base and later a testing ground for atomic weapons. Pop: 820 (1999 est)

Example Sentences

The mushroom cloud from the first hydrogen-bomb test, at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, in 1952.Credit:

From Nature

On July 21, 1950, he was stationed on Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific, a testing ground for nuclear weapons.

From Seattle Times

He also headed the military police unit on the Pacific atoll of Eniwetok, where the United States conducted atomic bomb tests in the 1950s.

From Washington Post

Within two months of the 1949 Soviet test, the Defense Department and Atomic Energy Commission announced a series of secret atomic tests at the Eniwetok Atoll, in the central Pacific.

From The New Yorker

There were issues to manage at the fledgling Livermore lab, thermonuclear tests to attend in the Nevada desert and plans to be made for new tests at Eniwetok.

From Literature