The United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958. In a hydrogen bomb testing at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954, islanders were exposed to the radioactive ...
Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands was chosen by the United States to test 23 nuclear weapons after the end of World War II, between 1946 and 1958. All 167 of the atoll’s inhabitants were told they ...
Watanave Hidenori, Professor at the University of Tokyo The biggest nuclear test conducted by the US in the Marshall Islands — codenamed Bravo — took place in the Bikini Atoll, on March 1 ...
After a major nuclear test seven decades ago, the U.S. government began secretly studying the Marshallese people like “mice.” The country has never healed. Seven decades after Castle Bravo ...
A huge concrete dome covers the site on Runit Island in the Marshall Islands where repeated nuclear tests were carried out But the biggest ever nuclear device detonated by the US was Castle Bravo ...
Matashichi Oishi, a long-time anti-nuclear activist and victim of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, died on March 7. He was 87. Oishi, born in Shizuoka ...
Giff Johnson, a newspaper editor in the Marshall Islands, was a passionate advocate against nuclear testing in the Pacific. He was drawn to Anjain and empathised with his frustration. Crucially ...