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	In the 1956 movie starring Gregory Peck, MOBY DICK, Captain Ahab, while announcing he knows the location of the great white whale, points to a map of Bikini Atoll. See the Herman Melville home page.
	According to the original 1954 movie production, GODZILLA, the greatest movie monster of all time, was awaken from his slumber because of the atomic bomb blasts in Bikini Atoll's lagoon. In the 1998 version of GODZILLA, the atomic bomb blasts shown in the movie are actual filmed views of the 1946 Baker shot on Bikini Atoll [note the ships surrounding the bomb explosion]. San Francisco Chronicle 5/2/04 article re Bikini Atoll and Godzilla. Godzilla Leaves Stomp On Walk Of Fame Godzilla received the 2,271st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today to commemorate both the 50th anniversary of his first film and 11/29/04's premiere of the latest offering, "Godzilla Final Wars."
	BIKINI ATOLL ROCKS There is a rock band in the United Kingdon called "Bikini Atoll." Their first album was released on the Bella Union label in February of 2004 and is entitled, Moratoria.
	TOM DOWD: The language of Music FILM PREMIERES NATIONWIDE ON AUGUST 13TH, 2004 A man who seemingly fit many lives into one lifetime, Tom Dowd was born on October 20, 1925 in New York City. At a young age he excelled in mathematics and physics, leading to his work from the ages of 16 to 20 on the Manhattan Project at Columbia University. In 1946, as a sergeant in the Army Corps of Engineers, he oversaw a team of radiation detection specialists at the atomic bomb tests in Bikini Atoll. After his discharge from Army, he soon began applying his science background to help revolutionize the process of recording music. While working for Atlantic Records, his pioneering work in binaural stereo recording, and later his design of the eight-track console, modernized the recording industry. Tom Dowd produced and engineered timeless records for artists including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, Cream, Rod Stewart, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers Band, Dusty Springfield and countless other celebrated musicians. Dowd also formed both strong professional and personal relationships with many of these artists, including Eric Clapton, starting with Cream and leading to their working partnership on Layla and Other Assorted Loves Songs and collaborations on several of Clapton's finest solo albums. Tom Dowd passed away on October 27, 2002, one week after his 77th birthday. He will never be forgotten.
	The Handsomest Man in the World by David Leddick In this epic novel two gay men meet on Bikini Atoll, the rest is history...
	*BIKINIS AND BOMBS* A Senior Project Art Exhibition The Library Art Gallery at the Florida Gulf Coast University Thursday, April 21, 2005 By Scott Guelcher
	X-Files GROUND ZERO By Dan Florio X-Files - Ground Zero Book Review Ground Zero is an excellent addition to the X-Files universe. The story is a nuclear-centered "Monster-of-the-Week" (as in - not part of the Conspiracy Mytharc). Suitably grotesque/unexplainable flash-burning deaths ground the plot firmly in the paranormal genre. Best of all - the novel has all the elements of humor and intellectual irrelevancy that make our Mulder and Scully so much fun. This X-Files book takes place between the second and third seasons - Scully is still dealing with the death of her father, Mulder is still afraid of fire, and nobody knows which side of the fence Skinner yet sits on. Award-winning author Kevin J. Anderson has the "voices" of our favorite agents down pat. I am enjoying the X-Files books because of his skill. By comparison, the huge line of Star Trek books were often disappointingly amateurish, with characters saying things that did not resonate with the characters we knew and loved. Anderson also uses the plot to supply readers with an interesting historical recount of above-ground Cold-War era nuclear testing, which formally ended with the 1963 above-ground ban. The tale of the forced evacuation of Bikini Atoll natives is wrenching, essential to this story that takes Mulder and Scully to a neaby atoll to witness a secret detonation of a fallout-free nuclear weapon. Very intriguing. It could happen. Such a thing COULD be under development right now. It's not paranoia when eveybody IS out to get you, right?
	Attack of the Crab Monsters Attack Of The Crab Monsters is a 1957, American, black-and-white, science fiction film, written by Charles B. Griffith and produced and directed by Roger Corman via Los Altos Productions, on contract for distribution by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. The plot follows a scientific expedition trapped on a remote island inhabited by atomically mutated giant crabs. It was distributed as the main feature on a programmed double bill with Not of This Earth Plot A group of scientists land on a remote island in the Pacific to search for a previous expedition that disappeared and to continue research about the effects of radiation from the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests on the island's plant and sea life. They learn to their horror that the earlier group of scientists have been eaten by mutated giant crabs that have gained intelligence by absorbing the minds of their victims. Members of the current expedition are systematically attacked and killed by the crabs, which are invulnerable to most weaponry because of the mutation in their cell structure. Finally, they discover the crabs are the cause of the earthquakes and landslides that are destroying the island. As the remaining expedition members struggle to survive on the ever-shrinking island, they must also find a way to stop the crabs before they reproduce and invade the oceans of the world.
	Decorated Cop and Dive Master Pens Stunning Thriller That Mixes International Intrigue and Environmental Catastrophe Barracuda by Mike Monahan is an edge-of-your seat adventure about a recuperating cop who faces a mutant barracuda. Yonkers, NY (PRWEB) January 17, 2008 -- The gripping crime drama, Barracuda by Mike Monahan, is a modern-day Jaws drama, pitting a wounded cop on a paradise island against a deadly barracuda. Ever since Jaws, people have been wondering how safe it is to go into the water. Now ex-cop Monahan's white-knuckle thriller Barracuda is about to make the beach an even more terrifying place. Detective Mick O'Shaughnessy is relaxing in the scuba diver paradise of Bikini Atoll, when he finds himself involved in international money laundering scheme, a territorial feud and an impending war between the Russian Mafia and the Japanese Yakuza. Added to this is a mutant barracuda who is snacking on tourists! Can he stop the crooks--and the fish? Written in whip-smart prose, Barracuda is power-packed with authentic scuba diving knowledge, police procedure and historical detail about Bikini Atoll. Fast-paced and wildly entertaining, Barracuda is truly the catch of the day. For more information or to request a free review copy, members of the press can contact the author at tarzan82 @ optonline.net. Barracuda is available for sale online at Amazon.com.
	In “How Dali Learned to Stop Worrying about Surrealism and Love the Bomb,” Gavin Parkinson demonstrates how all the Surrealists avidly followed the interwar advances in physics of Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, and Louis de Broglie. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, however, only Salvador Dali maintains his “nuclearphilia” and a “mood of curiosity, excitement, and optimism.” The Three Sphinxes of Bikini (left, from 1947) celebrate rather than condemn the nuclear testing conducted by the United States on the Bikini Atoll. from Art Blog by Bob: http://artblogbybob.blogspot.com/2008/04/grand-inquisitor.html
	Laurence Hyde, a wordless graphic novel about the nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll... When the United States began testing nuclear weapons in 1946 on the Bikini Atoll, the artist Laurence Hyde saw it as “a microcosm of the world-to-be if civilized humanity, for the last time, failed to live up to its name. It would appear that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not enough.” Inspired to do something through his woodcut art, Hyde worked from 1948 through 1951 on the series of woodcuts that became the wordless graphic novel, Southern Cross, which Drawn & Quarterly now reissued in a beautiful facsimile edition of the original 1951 hardback. from Art Blog by Bob: http://artblogbybob.blogspot.com/2007/10/destruction-of-paradise.html
	Bikini Atoll, an American thoroughbread racing horse from Fenwick Farms, is a 4 year old homebred. She is by Scatmandu out of Fivetwentyone. Bikini will be running on the east coast the summer of 2008. Her trainer is Mike Zwiesler.
	"NO BIKINI ATOLL" Tall Bearded Iris: Domain: Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes ◦ Kingdom: Plantae Haeckel, 1866 ▪ Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants ▪ Phylum: Tracheophyta Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants ▪ Subphylum: euphyllophytina ▪ Infraphylum: radiatopses kenrick & crane, 1997 ▪ Class: Liliopsida Scopoli, 1760 - Monocotyledons ▪ Subclass: Liliidae Takhtajan, 1967 ▪ Superorder: Lilianae Takhtajan, 1967 ▪ Order: Iridales Dumortier, 1829 ▪ Family: Iridaceae (eye-rid-AY-see-ay) A.L. de Jussieu, 1789 - Iris Family ▪ Subfamily: Iridoideae ▪ Tribe: Irideae ▪ Genus: Iris (EYE-ris) Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 38. 1753; Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 24. 1754. ▪ Botanical name: Iris 'No Bikini Atoll'

The following feature films have our name "bikini" in their titles.

See the Internet Movie Data Base for more information on these and other films:

1. Radio Bikini (1987)
2. The Bikini Carwash Company (1992)
3. Bikini Beach (1964)
4. Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
aka "Dr. G and the Bikini Machine" - UK
5. Bikini Summer II (1992)
aka "Bikini Summer 2" - USA
6. Bikini Bistro (1995)
7. The Bikini Carwash Company II (1993)
8. Bikini Summer (1991)
9. How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)
10. The Malibu Bikini Shop (1985)
aka "The Bikini Shop"
11. SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom (2003) (VG)
12. Bikini Island (1991)
13. Bikini Squad (1993)
14. Bikini Bandits (2002) (V)
aka "Bikini Bandits Go to Hell" - USA (complete title)
aka "The Bikini Bandits Experience" - USA (DVD title)
15. The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966)
16. The Great Bikini Off-Road Adventure (1994)
17. Bikini Beach Party (1967)
18. Bikini Drive-In (1995)
19. Poveri ma belli (1957)
aka "A Girl in Bikini" - UK
20. Bikini Hoe-Down (1997) (V)
21. Bikini Hotel (1997)
22. Bikini Med School (1994)
23. Bikini Beach Race (1992)
24. Bikini Party Massacre (2002)
25. Bikini Planet (2002) (V)
26. Bikini Summer III: South Beach Heat (1997)
27. It's a Bikini World (1967)
28. Maîtresse en maillot de bain, La (2002)
aka "Teacher in a Bikini" - (English title)
29. Babe Watch: Forbidden Parody (1996)
aka "Bikini Academy" - USA (DVD title)
30. Bachelor Tom Peeping (1962)
aka "Bachelor Tom and His Bikini Playmates" - USA (cut version)
31. Manina, la fille sans voile (1952)
aka "The Girl in the Bikini" - USA
32. Operation Bikini (1963)
33. California Hot Wax (1992)
aka "Bikini Carwash" - USA
34. Bikini Traffic School (1997) (V)
35. Teenage Bikini Vampire (2004) (V)
36. Wildest Dreams (1990)
aka "Bikini Genie"
37. California Bikini Contest (1990)
38. The Absolutely Outrageous Adventures of the Politically Incorrect Bikini Babes of Arizona (1997)
39. Canzoni in... bikini (1963)
40. Doomsday at Bikini Beach (1999)
41. Beach Bikini Party (1999)
42. Bettie Page: The Girl in the Leopard Print Bikini (2004) (V)
43. Bikini a Go Go (2004) (V)
44. Bikini Bash (2001)
45. Ferragosto in bikini (1961)
46. "Bikini Beach, the Poorman's" (2000)
47. "Girl in a Black Bikini" (1967)
48. "Bikini Destinations" (2005)
49. Guerra de los bikinis, La (1990)
aka "The Bikini War" - (English title) (informal literal title)
50. Her Bikini Never Got Wet (1962)
51. How-to-Do Girls: Bikini Calculus (2004) (V)
52. The Bikini Escort Company (2004) (V)
53. Bikini Girls on Dinosaur Planet (2005) (V)
54. Bikini Goddesses (1996)
55. The Bikini Keys (1995)
56. Bikini - Mon amour (1987)
57. Bikini Open (2005)
58. Masked Avenger Versus Ultra-Villain In the Lair of the Naked Bikini (1999) (V)
59. MGM Miniature: Bikini, the Atom Island (1946)
60. Muerte en bikini, La (1966)
61. Never Say Never Mind: The Swedish Bikini Team (2001) (V)
62. Bikini Paradise (1967)
63. Pesci d'oro e bikini d'argento (1962)
64. "Poorman's Bikini Beach" (2002)
65. Bikini rojo, El (1966)
66. Raw Adventures at Bikini Point (1995) (V)
67. Se sufre pero se goza (1984)
aka "Máscara contra bikini" - Mexico
68. SOS Conspiracion Bikini (1967)
69. Bikiniseom iyagi (1992)
aka "Bikini Island Story" - (literal English title)
70. Tan Lines: The Making of Suntanned Bikini (2003)
71. Bikini Watch (????)
72. Vampires on Bikini Beach (1988)
73. Bikini Witness (1995)
74. Zorrita en bikini, La (1976)
75. Joe Bikini (Producer, The Master Beater (1969))
76. Elvira Pagã (Actress, Vegas Nights (1948))
nickname "The Original Bikini Girl"
77. Bikini (2004)
78. Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)

And of course....
SPONGEBOB SQUARE PANTS [pictured at left] lives on BIKINI BOTTOM!

In the Dying For Pie [originally aired 1/27/2001] episode of Spongebob Squarepants, a bomb is put in a pie. When the pie is dropped at the end of the episode, the explosion depicted is actually the Baker Shot detonated on Bikini Atoll in 1946.

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