Bikini: What we don’t cover

Bikini: What we don’t cover

Bikini Atoll, 1946. Here’s the scene: children are playing on white sand beaches, women are weaving pandanus leaves into sleeping mats, men are preparing outrigger canoes for the day’s fishing. Within weeks, these 167 Bikinians would be relocated from their ancestral home so that America could test whether humanity had perfected the art of its own extinction. On July 1, 1946, the world watched, literally, through newsreels and radio broadcasts, …