Operation Crossroads Atomic Heritage Foundation、Legacyの章の最後の段落 The Bikini tests also inspired the eponymous swimsuit. Paris Swimwear designer Louis Reard adopted "Bikini" for his new line of swimwear during Operation Crossroads. Réard's bikini was not the first two-piece swimsuit, but he explained that "like the bomb, the bikini is small and devastating."
How the Summer of Atomic Bomb Testing Turned the Bikini Into a Phenomenon There, Réard dubbed the “four triangles of nothing” a “Bikini,” named after the Pacific Island atoll that the United States targeted just four days earlier for the well-publicized “Operation Crossroads,”、著者はJennifer Le Zotte
smithsonian.com、May 21, 2015
A little piece of history 第5段落目、"When the US army conducted its atomic bomb tests on the Bikini atoll in the Pacific on July 1 1946, out of the mushroom of the explosion Réard plucked a name for his creation that would stand the test of time. Four days later, his "bikini" was modelled by Micheline Bernardini."、著者はPaula Cocozza、The Guardian、2006年6月10日
