Place
Marshall Islands
Pacific island country; a U.S.-administered trust territory from 1947, in free association with the United States since 1986.
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Connections 9
involved in
- U.S. nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands the National Cancer Institute counts 14,000 residents exposed to the testing Primary record 1
location of
- Bikini Atoll Primary record 23
- Enewetak Atoll Primary record 4
- Kili Island Scholarship & press 5
- Kwajalein Atoll Scholarship & press 5
- Rongelap Atoll Primary record 6
- U.S. nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands Primary record 3
- Utirik Atoll Primary record 3
headquarters of
- Government of the Marshall Islands Primary record 1
Proof 6 sources
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Republic of the Marshall Islands Changed Circumstances Petition to Congress (CRS report RL32811, updated 30 August 2005), Congressional Research Service, U.S. Library of Congress, 30 Aug 2005.
Primary record
The NCI in September 2004 estimated that nuclear testing would result in about 530 additional lifetime cancers among the 14,000 Marshall Islands residents exposed to the testing.
The Compact, promulgated in 1986 ( P.L. 99-239 ), terminated the United Nations Trust Territory status of the Marshall Islands and Micronesia and provided a "full measure of self-government" for the peoples of the two island states.
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Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, Final Report, Chapter 12: The Marshallese, U.S. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (copy on the U.S. Department of Energy Openness site), 1995.
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The Bravo shot was detonated on Bikini at 6:45 a.m. on March 1, 1954.
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on hazardous substances and wastes, Calin Georgescu, Addendum: Mission to the Marshall Islands and the United States of America (A/HRC/21/48/Add.1), United Nations Human Rights Council, 3 Sep 2012.
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conducting a total of 67 detonations throughout the territory of the Marshall Islands, mostly in Bikini (23) and Enewetak (43)
The nuclear weapon’s high explosive yield created a fallout cloud that covered Rongelap Atoll (100 miles from the blast site) and Utrok Atoll (320 miles from the blast site).
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Report on the Status of the Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands (Report to Congress, June 2020), U.S. Department of Energy, Jun 2020.
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Enewetak Atoll is a former U.S. atmospheric nuclear weapons test site located in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, approximately 2,300 miles west of Hawaii in the northwest Pacific Ocean.
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A history of the people of Bikini following nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands: with recollections and views of elders of Bikini Atoll, Health Physics, vol. 73, no. 1 (July 1997), 1997.
Scholarship & press
Kili differs substantially from Bikini because it is only o single island of one-third of a square mile in land area with no lagoon
In March of 1948, after two unpleasant years on Rongerik, the Bikinians were transported to Kwajalein Atoll and housed there in tents on a strip of grass beside the airport.
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Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: public sitting of 14 November 1995, verbatim record CR 95/32 (statement of Lijon Eknilang for the Marshall Islands), International Court of Justice, 14 Nov 1995.
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Archived copy
Rongelap is approximately 150 kilometres southeast of Bikini Atoll, and about 470 kilometres downwind from Enewetak Atoll, which were the sites of the nuclear detonations during the testing programme.
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