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At the height of its control over the Marshall Islands, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests from 1946 to 1958, ...

Over the 12-year period that followed World War Two, the United States tested dozens of nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands. Residents of the Pacific nation are still grappling with the ...

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Originally from Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing by Richard Miller, and featured in Silent Fallout  From 1959-1970, the communities of Saint Louis, Missouri were tasked with a unique ...

The Marshall Islands has designated coral-rich waters around two of its remotest Pacific Ocean atolls as a marine sanctuary, ...

The tiny Pacific nation of the Marshall Islands began a legal battle today to demand the world’s nine nuclear-armed powers meet their disarmament obligations. It accused them of “flagrant violations” ...

the boat altered its course south toward the Marshall Islands. Just 80 miles west of its destination lay the Bikini Atoll, an island famous for America's testing of various nuclear weapons ...

The sanctuary lies to the east of Marshall Islands’ Bikini Atoll, which the US bombarded with experimental nuclear bombs throughout the 1940s and 1950s. It covers 48,000km2 — dwarfing Switzerland — ...

The Marshall Islands government has announced it will ... where the U.S. conducted 23 nuclear bomb tests in the 1940s and ‘50s, and found that marine life had still not recovered, noting the ...