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The United States conducted nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands in the 1940s and 1950s. Thousands of people from the ...
THE bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July, 1985, with the death of Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira, was a ...
Their former homeland was a U.S. testing site for nuclear bombs, but they can't get Medicare or Medicaid in Oklahoma. A resident of Enid, Okla., who was born in the islands is trying to change that.
Marshall Islanders are still plagued by health and environmental effects of 67 U.S. nuclear bomb tests from 1946 to 1958, which included "Castle Bravo" at Bikini Atoll in 1954 - the largest U.S ...
Marshall Islanders are still plagued by health and environmental effects of 67 U.S. nuclear bomb tests from 1946 to 1958, which included "Castle Bravo" at Bikini Atoll in 1954 - the largest U.S ...
From the U.S. mainland, it takes more than a day to fly to the Marshall Islands, and only one commercial airline makes the trip. The “Island Hopper,” United Airlines Flight 154, starts at ...
Bomb tests in the Marshall Islands may have direct Eastern Washington ties as well, Pritikin said, since the Hanford site was the predominant plutonium producer during the Cold War years.
ABC News' Gloria Riviera speaks with Marshall Islands resident Charlotte Jack, 16. ... The nuclear fallout from that bomb was so wide, ash rained down on the outer atolls.
Two days later, U.S. personnel took 82 Marshallese from Rongelap and the nearby Ailingnae atoll to a U.S. Navy base on Kwajalein, another atoll in the Marshall Islands.
The first-ever hydrogen bomb test, with the code name Ivy Mike, was tested on Enewetak in 1951. The U.S. conducted its largest hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll — the 1954 Castle Bravo bomb ...
On the morning of March 1, 1954, the U.S. tested a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll in the north of the Marshall Islands. Called the Castle Bravo test, it was the largest detonation the ...
People on the islands of Rongelap and Utirik were affected by radioactive fallout that occurred on March 1, 1954, from the first-ever hydrogen test bomb known as Castle Bravo, which was the ...