In 1946, James Cameron was among a select group of international journalists who were dispatched to the tiny South Sea islands of Bikini Atoll, to report on a US Military experiment codenamed Operation Crossroads. There, he witnessed first hand the terrifying power of the nuclear bomb. The experience had a profound and lasting impression on him.
Now 23 years later, Cameron has been permitted to return to Bikini Atoll, where the Americans are attempting to restore the islands in order to return them to the displaced islanders. What will he find there? How will he feel? Is there anything to be learned from nuclear testing?
This clip is from Cameron Country: Back To Bikini, originally broadcast 6 December, 1969.
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