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...gentle and soft-voiced natives of Bikini Atoll did not see the two terrible explosions that took place there in 1946. They had been taken by the U.S. Navy to another island called Rongerik. They did not like Rongerik. The fishing was not good; there was not enough fresh water; drought had decimated the coconuts...
They were homesick for Bikini, and the Navy could not make them fully understand why Bikini was not a suitable home any more. But the Navy could take them somewhere else. The native leaders looked over several other islands and finally chose a mile-long speck called Kili, 500 miles from their original home. There was no lagoon but there was plenty of water, much breadfruit and many coconuts, more than on Rongerik, more even than on loved and unforgotten Bikini. Last week the little band of atomic exiles, now numbering 181, were settled on Kili, making the best...
...voice of the bombardier came clearly to all hands at Bikini: "Skylight One, Skylight One. Two minutes before actual bomb release. Mark: two minutes . . . Adjust all goggles . . . Stand by ... Coming up ... Bomb away. Bomb away. Bomb away...
From his plane window 20 miles off, Radiological Monitor Bradley saw the "huge column of clouds, dense, white, boiling up through the strato-cumulus." The next move in Operation Crossroads was his; and a few minutes later he and his plane were flying toward Bikini Atoll and the "evil mushrooming" column...
...Beam. Bradley's job was terrifyingly simple. As one of the doctors attached to the Bikini experiment, he had to go into the bomb region with Geiger counters and other instruments, and tell the Army & Navy which areas were too "hot" to be handled safely by their investigators. When, for example, he tested the atmosphere underneath the deadly cloud canopy, his instruments hardly turned a hair-a "boiling updraft" had already swept all floating fission products' high above him. But when he headed down toward the target ships, the Geiger counters "sang" like mad. "Each [ship] seemed...