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MARSHALL ISLANDS

EDITORIALS
Mar 8, 2014
Sixty years since Bikini's sacrifice
It has been 60 years since the U.S. tested a hydrogen bomb — a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima — in the Bikini Atoll, destroying an island and exposing thousands of people to deadly radiation.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Feb 8, 2014
Blast from the past: Lucky Dragon 60 years on
Sixty years ago, on March 1, 1954, a Japanese fishing boat named Lucky Dragon No. 5 was doused by radioactive fallout from a U.S. hydrogen-bomb test, codenamed Castle Bravo, on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Although the bomb was over 1,000 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima...
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Jun 10, 2012
The Marshall Islands: Tropical idylls scarred like Tohoku
With all its American, European and Asian cultural influences, it's easy to forget that Japan is also an island nation in the Pacific.

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