Graveyard on Bikini Island
date: label: Date made
content: 1946
name: label: photographer
content: Mydans, Carl
notes: label: Description
content: After the end of World War II, President Harry S. Truman issued a directive to army and navy officials for the joint testing of nuclear weapons "to determine the effect of atomic bombs on American warships." Bikini Atoll was chosen as the new nuclear proving ground for the U.S. government because of its location away from regular air and sea routes. The natives needed to be relocated in order for operation <i>Crossroads</i> to get underway. Mydans was sent to the area to document the exodus of the people of Bikini. The story was published by <i>LIFE</i> (Mar 25 1946).
label: Description
content: The graveyard on Bikini Island, just outside a village on the southside of the island, held about thirty graves. Walking together between the tombstones, the children smile, probably not realizing that they would soon leave their island and its history behind.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Marshall Islands: Bikini & Kili, Bikini Atoll
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
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content: Carl Mydans
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Life Magazine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0228.115
label: accession number
content: 2005.0228
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0228.115
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 14 in; 27.94 cm x 35.56 cm