30 JULY 2013
In March 1946, the United States dropped the first of 67 nuclear bombs on the Marshall Islands, a tiny nation of scattered atolls in the northern Pacific Ocean.
The Republic of the Marshall Islands US Embassy website documents the testing program that ended in August 1958 - how some Marshallese were evacuated from their homes to allow the bombs to drop and how radioactive dust fell on half the nation. The slow but inevitable emergence of tumours, the sharp spikes in cancers, the displacement of communities - all documented in a shocking timeline.
Click here to read more: http://www.theguardian.com/global/planet-oz/2013/jul/30/marshall-islands-climate-change-pacific-forum-nuclear-testing
Source: The Guardian