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Truman's Curse

you used their faith for your political gain.
told relocation was for the good of all mankind.
they believed everything is in the hands of god.
a god that would leave them to perish and starve.

the dreams of bikinians came to an abrupt end, when operation crossroads was born from u.s. sin. the world of peace you had hoped for is global destruction starting on bikini's shores.
you promised them support, you promised them protection. instead you delivered an island full of radioactive contamination. dangerous levels of strontium-90 riddled their bones with cancer. stillbirths, miscarriages, genetic abnormalities plagued generations thereafter. what did you gain as a result of their destruction? just one hundred and sixty-seven souls to haunt you forever.

this was for the good of all mankind?