It was really the US politics of these times to present the atom bomb and the tests as &quot;a good thing&quot; in general:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;arts&#x2F;culturebox&#x2F;2011&#x2F;07&#x2F;wish_you_wereboom.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;arts&#x2F;culturebox&#x2F;2011&#x2F;07&#x2F;wish_y...</a><p>Also, the &quot;bikini&quot; famously got its name from the<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bikini_Atoll" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Bikini_Atoll</a><p>&quot;Between 1946 and 1958, 23 nuclear devices were detonated by the United States at seven test sites located on the reef, inside the atoll, in the air, or underwater.[4]&quot;<p>&quot;Building on this attention, in 1946, French engineer Louis Réard named his new swimsuit design the bikini, in hopes that its revealing style would create an &quot;explosive commercial and cultural reaction&quot; similar to the 1946 nuclear explosion at Bikini Atoll.[5][6][7][8][9]&quot;<p>The press loved it.<p>I also remember reading about some US leaflets containing something like &quot;if somebody comes to you showing the reading of a Geiger counter, don&#x27;t trust him, he&#x27;s doing the foreign propaganda and just tries to make our citizens feel less secure.&quot; Maybe somebody remembers that better?