![Josselin Brémaud on Twitter: "The bikini first revealed #OTD in 1946. Named after the US nuclear tests ocurring at the same time in the Bikini atoll. #NationalBikiniDay https://t.co/Nc64cNDsHX" / Twitter Josselin Brémaud on Twitter: "The bikini first revealed #OTD in 1946. Named after the US nuclear tests ocurring at the same time in the Bikini atoll. #NationalBikiniDay https://t.co/Nc64cNDsHX" / Twitter](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DD_mUlqU0AAxH5i.jpg:large)
Josselin Brémaud on Twitter: "The bikini first revealed #OTD in 1946. Named after the US nuclear tests ocurring at the same time in the Bikini atoll. #NationalBikiniDay https://t.co/Nc64cNDsHX" / Twitter
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The 'Bikini' was named after Bikini Atoll, a Pacific island where the US detonated its 1st peacetime nuclear weapons test four days prior. The designer, Louis Réard, hoped the name would create
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The swimsuit named for an atomic test site, and other familiar things named after less familiar places | South China Morning Post
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