The Bikinians
A Transplanted Population
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2500473 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonard Mason (University of Hawaii System, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1950 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-15 |
| Publication date | 1950-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/humo.9.1.uup2191w1707n4h2 |
| OpenAlex | W1995207603 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
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
Archaeology · Atoll · Geography · Governor · Navy · Population · Reef · Rock blasting · Shoal · Sociology · Demography · Engineering · Geology · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Oceanography · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1955 - 2013 (59) |
| Highly cited | No |