BIKINI ATOLL TODAY INTRODUCTION In 1986, tna Bikini people agreed to leave their home atoll to permit the U.S. to best atLomie bombs. could return In 1968 President Johngon announced the people following cleanup of debris left from the tests. afore the people returned the U.S. planted thousands of food-bearing trees and built 40 concrete houses for the people. to leave. In 1978 the U.S. government asked the paople This book explains the reason for this request (action) and tne presant information on the condition of the atoll, The U. S. Government has prepared this booklet to assist the Bikini people in understanding the affect of the atom bomb testing on their atoll and what that means to the people. The Marshallese text ig a dynamic equivalent translation of an original English draft, and the English text is a modified literal translation of tha Marshallesn test. TINY THINGS THAT ARE RADTOACTTVE Everything on earth is formed from many many tiny things that we eannot gee. (Theaa are called atoms.) Some of these thinga are sant apart (distinct} and are alike in a certain way because they change and becomn other kinds of tiny things that do nok change. We Say that thease tiny things (atoms) ara gat apart are radioactive because they do change. al- that