Damage to the Marshall Islands from nuclear tests
The United States conducted nuclear tests over the coral reel near Nam Island in the Bikini Atoll. These tests evidently contaminated the entire territory of the Marshall Islands. Exposed to "ashes of death" by the Bravo test, the residents of the Rongelap and Utirick atolls were removed from their islands by US military forces two or three days later. Nevertheless, they suffered thyroid gland disorders, abnormal pregnancies, and other ills. In 1957, the residents of Rongelap Atoll were allowed to return home, but the continuing high incidence of disease compelled them in 1985 to move of their own accord to Mejatto Island.
	9/Inhabitants of Bikini Atoll and the Marshall Islands

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