The Bikini islanders were displaced with no real choice in the matter

Evidence

The Navy sent Commodore Ben H. Wyatt, known as “Battling Ben,” to “ask” the Bikinians for use of their islands. The answer was a foregone conclusion: President Harry Truman had already approved the removal, and preparations for a nuclear test on the islands had already begun. For their part, the Bikinians had been awed by the U.S. defeat of Japan and were grateful for the help the United States had provided since the war. They “believe[d] that they were powerless to resist the wishes of the United States,” according to Jonathan Weisgall, an attorney who has represented the group for decades. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 191

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Diego Garcia displacement narrative earlier in this same book (Vine’s central parallel) and more broadly to histories of coerced relocation of indigenous peoples for military projects.