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At the height of its control over the Marshall Islands, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests from 1946 to 1958, ...

Marshall Islands--The president of the Marshall Islands asked Japan to share what it learned from the wartime atomic bombings and the 2011 nuclear disaster with her country, a Cold War-era U.S ...

Marshall Islands declared its first national marine sanctuary, protecting a "pristine" expanse of tropical Pacific Ocean home ...

The Marshall Islands has designated coral-rich waters around two of its remotest Pacific Ocean atolls as a marine sanctuary, ...

Over the 12-year period that followed World War Two, the United States tested dozens of nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands. Residents of the Pacific nation are still grappling with the ...

The tiny Pacific nation of the Marshall Islands began a legal battle today to demand the world’s nine nuclear-armed powers meet their disarmament obligations. It accused them of “flagrant violations” ...

the boat altered its course south toward the Marshall Islands. Just 80 miles west of its destination lay the Bikini Atoll, an island famous for America's testing of various nuclear weapons ...

Survivors of decades-old fallout from nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific were honored at the Guam Congress Building on ...

The present assessment was requested by the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, with the purpose of obtaining an independent view of the radiological situation on Bikini Atoll, the ...

“I am proud of our country’s first marine sanctuary, which certainly won’t be its last.” The sanctuary lies to the east of Marshall Islands’ Bikini Atoll, which the US bombarded with experimental ...

The Marshall Islands government has announced it will ... where the U.S. conducted 23 nuclear bomb tests in the 1940s and ‘50s, and found that marine life had still not recovered, noting the ...