Bikini Atoll is as close to the middle of nowhere as you can get. This is why the U.S. tested its nukes here, and why, when you’re on Bikini and both of Air Marshall Islands’ two airplanes have broken down, you’re stranded. Such was the case last August for six scuba divers who’d come from around the world to see Bikini’s famous ghost wrecks – scuttled by the first two of those bombs – and myself. Listen to my account, produced for the Radio Netherlands program The State We're In ("Return to Bikini," on bottom of RN's page).
