Eniwetok

American  

[en-uh-wee-tok, uh-nee-wi-tok] / ˌɛn əˈwi tɒk, əˈni wɪˌtɒk /

noun

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

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Eniwetok British  

/ 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)

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Example Sentences

The radio-silent ship was en route from Pearl Harbor to Eniwetok Atoll, as a waypoint before its ultimate destination of bombarding Iwo Jima.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2023

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

From Nature • May 29, 2018

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

From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2018

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 • Dec. 31, 2017

Yet following the government’s announcement of the test, if not its spectacular results—a 10.4-megaton blast that completely obliterated Elugilab, an island in the Eniwetok Atoll—it was Livermore that received popular credit for the feat.*

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik