00:00In 1946, the U.S. government told an entire island's people they needed to leave their home,
00:05just temporarily, for the good of mankind.
00:09They never came back.
00:10The people of Bikini Atoll were relocated to a tiny, barren island with almost no food.
00:16Then the U.S. detonated 67 nuclear weapons on their home over 12 years.
00:21In 1968, the government declared Bikini safe.
00:25Families moved back, started eating the fish, the coconuts, the food from their own land.
00:31Then doctors ran tests.
00:33Radioactive material was building up inside their bodies.
00:36Strontium-90, cesium-137, absorbed from the soil, the water, everything they touched.
00:43They were quietly removed again.
00:45Today, a concrete dome built to contain the nuclear waste is cracking open into the Pacific Ocean.
00:50No one has fixed it.
00:51The Marshallese people have filed compensation claims for decades.
00:55Most have been denied or defunded.
00:57And the man who originally convinced the Bikini chief to agree to the move told him he was doing God's
01:02work.
01:02He believed him.
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