Tag Archives: Marshall Islands

Victim of 1954 U.S. H-bomb test over Bikini Atoll dies at 87via Asahi Shimbun

Posted on 2021/03/22 by nfield

[…] All 23 crew members were exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test conducted by the United States on March 1, 1954. A crew member in charge of operating the ship’s ham radio died just six months after … Continue reading →

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Young Marshallese Advocate For Nuclear Justice via Honolulu Civil Beat

Posted on 2021/03/18 by nfield

By Jon Letman / March 17, 2021 This week poets, tribal elders, military veterans and members of the U.S. Congress will join the president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands David Kabua for Washington-Marshall Islands Nuclear Remembrance Week. The six-day virtual event is … Continue reading →

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The lingering legacy of US nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands　via New Zealand Herald

Posted on 2020/12/12 by nfield

By RNZ. The US detonated its largest nuclear bombs around the Marshall Islands in the 1940s and 50s – but the Marshallese are still campaigning for adequate compensation. The Marshall Islands are two chains of 29 coral atolls in the middle … Continue reading →

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Losing paradise via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2020/11/02 by nfield

Atomic racism decimated Kiribati and the Marshall Islands; now climate change is sinking them This is an extract from the Don’t Bank on the Bomb Scotland report “Nuclear Weapons, the Climate and Our Environment”. Kiribati In 1954, the government of … Continue reading →

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#75 years of resilence via #stillhere

Posted on 2020/08/03 by nfield

The hibakusha, or those who survived the nuclear attacks in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are the best known nuclear survivors, but they are not the only ones. Downwinders grew up near America’s nuclear testing and production sites in places like Utah, … Continue reading →

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75 Years After Trinity: The Human Cost of Nuclear Tests via The Diplomat

Posted on 2020/07/16 by nfield

Seventy-five years ago today, the United States conducted the Trinity test, the world’s first nuclear detonation. In the ensuing years, the U.S. ultimately conducted more than 1,000 nuclear tests, half of all known tests conducted by the world’s nine nuclear nations since 1945. Now, … Continue reading →

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The Poison and the Tomb via Mashable

Posted on 2018/02/25 by nfield

Between 1946 and 1958, the U.S. nuked the Marshall Islands 67 times: The effects could be compared to dropping 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for 12 years. When the tests ended in 1958, forced displacement and radiation poisoning had already … Continue reading →

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A Tiny Island Used as a Nuclear Dumpsite Is About to Be Submerged by Water via Global Citizen

Posted on 2017/11/29 by nfield

[…] For more than half a century, the atoll, which is part of the Marshall Islands, has been contaminated by nuclear explosions and waste, according to ABC Australia. The decades ahead could leave it submerged by rising sea levels. In this way, … Continue reading →

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The Untimely Death Of A Marshall Islands Visionary via Civil Beat

Posted on 2017/08/17 by nfield

By Jon Letman After a short, sudden illness that ended with cardiac arrest in a Taipei Hospital, the Republic of the Marshall Islands’ second highest ranking official, Minister in Assistance Mattlan Zackhras, died on Aug. 8 at the age of … Continue reading →

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Nuclear weapons and climate change: A double whammy for the Marshall Islands via The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2017/08/07 by nfield

On May 30, an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile launched from the Kwajalein Atoll military base in the Republic of the Marshall Islands collided with an interceptor launched from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. Planned for years, the shootdown was the first live-fire … Continue reading →

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