[citation needed]. For more information, click here. A large berm was built on the northern end of the island to support the missile silos, while a Missile Site Radar was built to its south, on the western side.

Three families moved there to produce copra for sale and other families rotated living there later on.

[citation needed] T-shirts, jeans, skirts, and makeup are making their way to the islands via the media.

Some were able to return to Bikini Island in 1970; however, further testing revealed dangerous levels of strontium-90.

For the U.S., the battle represented both the next step in its island-hopping march to Japan and a significant morale victory, as it was the first time the Americans had penetrated the "outer ring" of the Japanese Pacific sphere. [43] In June, the Department of Energy stated that "All living patterns involving Bikini Island exceed Federal [radiation] guidelines for thirty year population doses." At the time, the atoll was known as Kuadelen and Kabajaia to Spain. With the establishment of Kwajalein's public school in 1935, schoolteachers were sent to the island from Japan. He visited three times during 1816 and 1817. So now is the time when the Bikinians, if they desired, could go back. The bereaved families of conscripted Korean laborers have also recently traveled in groups to the Marshall Islands and other parts of Micronesia, the Philippines, and Indonesia, with funding from the Japanese government, although they have not yet paid a group visit to Kwajalein. Ebeye is about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north of eastern end of Kwajalein Island.

"[36], In January 1948, Dr. Leonard Mason, an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii, visited Rongerik Atoll and was horrified at what he found. This, explain many elders, is a Marshallese metaphor that describes the past century of colonialism and serves to explain why Kwajalein is still so precious to foreign interests. The first of these groups was the Japan Marshall Islands War-Bereaved Families Association, which negotiated its visit with the U.S. Army as far back as 1964 and made its first visit in 1975 at the invitation of the Kwajalein Missile Range.

[31], When the first runway was built on Kwajalein island by Korean laborers, the Japanese public school was demolished and moved, with all civil administration, to Namu Atoll, and Islanders were forcibly moved to live on some of the smaller islets in the atoll.[when?] They included verandas overlooking the lagoon. In 2011 Nishma Jamore was elected mayor of the district representing the Bikini people. Shopping,