Marshall Islands, Nuclear Weapons Testing

Posted: 3rd July 2021

 Seventy-five years after the US military began using the Marshall Islands

as a nuke testing ground, a new generation fired-up by climate activism is
demanding justice. When the Able atomic bomb was detonated at Bikini Atoll
on July 1, 1946, Alson Kelen’s family were among those forced from their
palm-fringed ancestral homes. For decades, complaints were muted. Many
accepted at face value promises from the US Navy that they were in no
danger and would be safely relocated away from the test sites. But
abnormally high cancer rates among the displaced islanders - who are
either unable to return to their radiation-tainted homelands or must live
alongside leaking deposits of nuclear waste -
tell a different story.

 Daily Mail 1st July 2021

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-9743907/New-generation-protests-Pacifics-nuclear-legacy-75-years-on.html

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