A Texas-based craft brewery is taking the heat for naming one of its beers after the location of a South Pacific island blown pretty much into smithereens by US nuclear testing.

Fallout from nuclear testing exposed those living in the greater area to high levels of radiation. The tests, which happened from 1946 to 1958, also took out a number of crewmen of a Japanese fishing vessel.

Former residents of Bikini Atoll, now living in the Marshall Islands, said Manhattan Project Beer Company is insensitive for naming a beer after their island. There is no word as to whether the islanders back in 1946 felt naming the bikini swim suit after their island was also insensitive. 

As with most craft beer businesses, Manhattan Project Beer Company began as a passionate hobby, with a small group of friends coming together in 2010 to create a beer for a wedding.

Pleased with their results, the group decided to formalize under the name Manhattan Project, “given our creative, collaborative, experimental, and scientific approach to beer making (not to mention the plethora of cool beer names like Half-Life and Superfortress),” said the brewery. “We then began branding and marketing our group. Manhattan Project entered its first competitive festival in May of 2013, taking first place in American IPA with a light, crisp IPA called Hoppenheimer.”