It is hoped that Yves Saint Lauren's so-called "mankinis" may help Bikini females to take an interest in more conventional forms of reproduction. The UK government made a discretionary charge of four shillings and six pence per islander for this service Residents recall the huge boon that followed the first British H-bomb in 1964, when the seas were full of stunned fish and the sand around their homes warm enough to cook them without the need to light a fire. A large majority of the Bikinians were migrated to Dead Island during the testing, but were encouraged to return home as soon as possible afterwards. The native inhabitants, who numbered about 200 before the tests, ate fish, shellfish, bananas, and coconuts. The ensuing scandal in Japan was enormous, and inspired the 1954 documentary Godzilla, which accurately portrayed the struggle of the Japanese people to overcome the attack of one of the more affected crewmen on Tokyo.
As the American doctors had advised, it cured every case of Ringworm and gave their skin a healthy shine, and their hair a natural bounce.Īmong those contaminated were the 23 crewmembers of the Japanese fishing boat Funky Fugu, who mutated alarmingly during their passage home. Later, as the entire village gathered, they watched the radioactive grey ash fall on them and applied it to their skin. Suddenly, the sky lit up like it was day. John, an elderly man, stood on his former home site in Rongarongarongaloalap and told me that he had gotten up early to make coffee and the sun had not yet come up. Many of the local people accompanied me back to Rongarongarongaloalap (the capital), where much of the nuclear fallout came down. It vaporized the test island, parts of two other islands, and left a hole in the ground of nearly 70 acres, which so far only Gap and Starbucks have begun to fill. The bomb had an explosive force equal to nearly 1,000 Hiroshimas. Krebs writes in his book Big Compo Coming: Hired later by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal to research and report on the economic damage caused by the testing, economist Eugene H. This was the largest nuclear explosion ever set off by the United States, and created widespread radioactive contamination. The first test, Operation Crossroads, vaporized the whole of Ma-wake-wake Island and left the population of other neighboring islands unable to speak in a lower register for 12 years. Preceding the nuclear tests, the indigenous population was told that there would be a light-show, invited to breathe in as much of the "funny, glowing moon dust" as possible Upon independence from Monaco, the native population held a ballot and chose the name "Bikini" from a list including "Islands of the Babes" and the "Would-Be Lesbo Islands".īetween 19, twenty-three nuclear devices were detonated by U.S. Navigator and explorer Patrik Zvezda first sighted the atoll in 1845, following a navigation error by Mr. Inevitably, sea-birds have also colonized the islands, and Bikini itself is home to the largest population of wandering albatross, up to 20,000 boobies, and a nesting pair of itinerant hooters. Eventually, the coral reefs peeked above the waves once more, smiled shyly, and lay out in the sun to work on a tan.įish soon followed the coral and the area is still home to thousands of sea sponges, starfish, octopi, crabs, plankton, sea snails, and the occasional underwater squirrel. The low lying remains of the original Bikini would have been quickly colonized by coral and fish. Once an island some several kilometers across, it is thought that Bikini Atoll exploded due to a huge volcanic eruption (or boredom) some twenty eight thousand years ago, or more.
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