Juda
Books
- Two Bombs at Bikini Operation Crossroads and the Birth of the Nuclear Age · Liszt Think
In July 1946, the U.S. Navy assembled ninety target ships and forty-two thousand men at Bikini Atoll to test atomic weapons against a fleet. What followed was a collision of military ambition and invisible peril.
- The Sun-Ringed Lagoon…hed the water. Their consent was a formality, a courtesy extended to a population too small to resist. After a time, the chief, a man named Juda, spoke. If the United States government needed their islands, they would go. In their understanding, this was an act of trust. The American…
- The Unwilling Pioneers of Rongerik…l, Marshall Islands. The landing craft grounded on the coral sand with a grinding hiss. The Seabees had come to take the church apart. King Juda stood watching as men with hammers and crowbars climbed the steps of the structure his people had built with their own hands, the planks br…
- The Bureaucrat’s Secret Log…ement of 167 people from their atoll was acknowledged, but framed as a temporary arrangement made with their consent. The narrative of King Juda’s agreement, extracted in the months before the tests, was presented without the context of pressure, without the promises that had been ma…