Abstract
Operation Crossroads by the US was designed to test the destructive power of nuclear weapons. The inhabitants on Bikini and Enewetak were moved to uninhabited atolls in the Marshall Islands, with the promise from the US that they would be returned to their islands. During the next 12 years, about 70 atomic and hydrogen bomb blasts devastated the islands. On March 1, 1954, the US detonated Bravo, the first test of a deliverable hydrogen bomb, exposing the Japanese fishermen on the Lucky Dragon add and the inhabitants of Rongelap and Utirik islands to radiation. The struggle of all these islanders being moved from their homelands, their return to contaminated environments in some cases, their medical problems, and trust funds instituted by the United States are discussed. (MCW)
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