ABSTRACT
THERE WAS easy familiarity about the remotest Pacific around longitude 166 latitude 12 degrees north at Bikini atoll when around 42,000 men and women in 220 ships congregated there in 1946 to explode the world’s fourth and fifth atomic bombs experimentally. Two dropped on Japan from Tinian had ended the Pacific war. ‘The main island, drawing close on the starboard bow, was so precisely the conventional picture of a South Sea Island that it might have been the jacket of a very old novel’, commented the justly famous British foreign correspondent James Cameron.
