The Bikinians: A Transplanted Population

Abstract

The world at large first learned of Bikini on January 24, 1946, when the U.S. Navy Department announced that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had selected an atoll in the northern Marshall Islands as the site for an experimental explosion of two atomic bombs. Two weeks later the U.S.S. Sumner dropped anchor in Bikini lagoon and commenced charting shoal areas and blasting coral obstructions to make way for the target fleet to be assembled. One hundred and sixtyseven Marshallese inhabitants of Bikini began to comprehend the full import of this activity on February 10 when the military governor of the Marshalls and his staff arrived by air from Kwajalein to explain about Operation Crossroads and to secure the islanders' assent to their evacuation from Bikini in the interests of U.S. national security.

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