Mai 2010 / Counterpunch.org

Cancer and Injustice in the South Pacific

The Radiological Legacy of Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands

By ROBERT ALVAREZ

The radiological legacy of U.S. nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands remains to this day and will persist for many years to come. The most severe impacts were visited upon the people of the Rongelap Atoll in 1954 following a very large thermonuclear explosion which deposited life-threatening quantities of radioactive fallout on their homeland. They received more than three times the (...)

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