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Japan’s own ‘Pearl Harbor’ was the original target for U.S. Nukes

The Truk Atoll, now known as the Chuuk Lagoon, lies about 900 miles northeast of the main island of Papua New Guinea and ...
The Atlantic

Return Trip to the Stone Age

The climate, though somewhat warm, is genial and on the whole healthful, and the Truk atoll and the islands, the tips of submerged mounlaintops appearing above the blue waters of the lagoon, form an ...
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The U.S. and China Wage Diplomatic War in the Central and South Pacific

Eighty-one years separate 1942 and 2023. In that human lifetime, the technologies of war have changed, as have some of the regional and global actors. Great Power rivalry definitely isn't ancient ...
The Christian Century

The ocean’s infinite game

Midway through Playground, oceanographer Evelyne (Evie) Beaulieu dives off Truk Atoll in the central Pacific in order to photograph the debris of a sunken World War II ship. Hundreds of feet ...
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America's Revenge Bomb Hit So Hard It Left a Giant Crater in the Ocean

My first instinct was to jump overboard.” That was how Air Group 9 leader Lieutenant Commander Philip H. Torrey Junior ...

‘Japan’s Pearl Harbor’ was the original target for US nukes

The Truk Atoll, now known as the Chuuk Lagoon, lies about 900 miles northeast of the main island of Papua New Guinea and 3,500 miles southeast of Hawaii. Japan used the atoll to help double its ...