Person
Juda
Leader of the people of Bikini Atoll in 1946, when the U.S. asked them to leave for atomic tests.
- Also known as
- King Juda
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head of
- Bikini Atoll 1946 King, leader of Bikini's people Scholarship & press 1
involved in
- Removal of Bikini's inhabitants answered the request for his people Scholarship & press 1
- Operation Crossroads went back to Bikini to see the results of the Baker test Scholarship & press 1
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- 1946 Juda head of Bikini Atoll
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A history of the people of Bikini following nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands: with recollections and views of elders of Bikini Atoll, Health Physics, vol. 73, no. 1 (July 1997), 1997.
Scholarship & press
King Juda, then the leader of the Bikinian people, stood up after much confused and sorrowful deliberation among his people
If the United States government and the scientists of the world want to use our island and atoll for furthering development, which with God’s blessing will result in kindness and benefit to all mankind, my people will be pleased to go elsewhere
No one dissented in front of the Americans when they
While the 167 Bikinians were preparing for their exodus, preparations for the U.S. nuclear testing program advanced rapidly.
In July, the Bikinian leader, Juda, traveled with a U.S. government delegation back to Bikini to view the results of the second atom bomb test of Operation Crossroads, code named Baker.
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