Rongerik
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…truction. The world was moving in, and they were being pushed aside. The date for their departure was set for early March. They would go to Rongerik, an uninhabited atoll about 125 miles to the east. Rongerik was smaller than Bikini, with less land and a lagoon that did not offer the sam…
- A Fleet of Ghosts…ccupied by a silent fleet of ninety ships, a premonition of dereliction that stands in stark juxtaposition to the unfolding human crisis on Rongerik.
- The Unwilling Pioneers of Rongerik…rop-off fell away into the Pacific deep. On the beach, a different kind of preparation was under way. The 167 Bikinians were being moved to Rongerik, a relocation that would begin a permanent exile. February 1946. Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. The landing craft grounded on the coral sa…