He saw a Marshall Islands nuclear bomb test up close. It’s haunted him since 1952 Alan Jones, 92, was aboard a research vessel just 72 miles from the Ivy Mike detonation, which doused the crew ...

A new study into the legacy of the US nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands has shown the impacts were significantly greater than has previously been acknowledged. The research, which was ...

Above: The second of 67 American nuclear tests conducted in the Marshall Islands blew 2 million tons of lagoon a mile into the sky at Bikini Atoll in 1946. Nearly 70 years later, a cemetery on ...

This month is the 67th anniversary of the United States detonating and testing the most powerful nuclear bomb, called "Bravo," in the Marshall Islands. Today, Marshallese residents both near and ...

The United States conducted nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands in the 1940s and 1950s. Thousands of people from the ...

“The Marshall Islands were selected as ground zero for nuclear testing precisely because colonial narratives portrayed the islands as small, remote and unimportant,” said Autumn Bordner, a ...

The Marshall Islands tests made up only around 6 percent of the 1,054 carried out by the U.S. between 1946 and 1992, but the area bore the brunt of the energy yield.

Between 1946 and 1958, after relocating whole villages to other islands to clear the way for weapons testing, the U.S. detonated 67 nuclear weapons at sites across the Marshall Islands and other ...

In his visit the Marshall Islands in March 2012, Mr. Georgescu reported that the communities affected by nuclear testing over sixty years ago in the Marshall Islands are still adversely affected ...

The diminutive nation happens to be the site of no fewer than 67 US nuclear bomb tests in the 1940s and 50s, during an almost 40-year period in which the US administered the Islands under a UN ...

Pacific communities marked the 70th year of nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll in Marshall Islands by highlighting the demand for justice and accountability. March 1 is Nuclear Free and Independent ...

The study affirms that this kind of contamination is a direct result of the aggressive nuclear weapons testing that took place on the islands between 1946 and 1958. The studies, co-authored by Malvin ...