That what caused the intelligent sea life at Bikini Bottom. Well, intelligent might be overstating it.

In 1975, the United States set up The Hawaiian Trust Fund for the People of Bikini, to pay to clean up, reconstruct homes and facilities, and resettle the islanders on Bikini and Eneu islands.

In 2017, after lobbying by the leaders of Bikini, the Trump administration stated that there would be no limits on withdrawals from the main fund and no further audits of the main fund.

The mayor of the council that is responsible for the Bikini people, Anderson Jibas, used the fund’s assets to buy a plane, construction equipment and two cargo ships. In addition, an apartment complex in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands, and 283 acres of land in Hawaii were purchased.

By March 2023, only $100,041 was left in the fund that held $59 million in 2017.
The council stopped paying its approximately 350 employees and stopped paying $150 monthly subsistence payments to the 6,800 members of the Bikini community.

By 2023, a state of emergency on Kili was declared, and the Marshallese government had to step in try to remedy the situation.
Aid helped restore electricity to the island, which had been shut off after the funds were depleted.