development meant nuclear testing, and the Atomic Energy Commission noted that “tests should be held overseas until it could be established more definitely that continental detonations would not endanger the public health and safety.” ° Enewetak was chosen as the test site. Paradoxically, it was the same isolation that had once insulated Enewetak from Western culture that now finally thrust it into direct contact with the most elemental forces in Western technology. The area downwind from Enewetak was uninhabited for at least 500 miles. And, according to a December 1947 A.E.C. press release, "“Enewetak has the fewest number of inhabitants to be cared for." Ujelang was to be their new home. Much smaller, much less bountiful than Enewetak, this atoll held no attraction for the Enewetakans. One of them wrote a song. On the day of the twenty-first, all of the people came to this atoll. But we do not worry for it is the will of the Lord. We are very sad. We miss the islands from which we are separated. But we do not worry for it is the will of the Lord. At Enewetak, a city of 10,000 was built. Airfields, bunkers, research laboratories and barracks were crammed onto the atoll's two-and-one-quarter square miles. . On October 31, 1952, "Mike" was detonated on an Enewetakese island named Llugelab. The world's first hydrogen bomb -- over ten megatons -- vaporized the island and left a crater over a mile wide and three hundred feet deep.