With the effects of the U.S. atomic tests in the Pacific still lingering, the Marshall Islands' ambassador to Japan and a Japanese victim of a 1954 hydrogen bomb test recently called for a nuclear-free world.
"The overall results of the U.S. nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands have had a lingering and devastating effect on the people, their plants and their food crops," Phillip K. Kabua, ambassador of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, said in a speech Saturday in Tokyo.
The islands were the site of 67 U.S. nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958.
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