Sixty years ago, the children of Rongelap Atoll played in what they thought was snow. Their parents only later found out that it was radioactive debris, the dust of vaporized coral from the largest of ...

The United States tested its largest thermonuclear bomb in 1954 over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, generating radioactive fallout downwind, including over remote Rongelap Atoll. We surveyed ...

Marshall Islands traditional and government leaders joined Greenpeace representatives in showing off tapa banners with the words "Justice for Marshall Islands" during the dockside welcome ceremony ...

This committee was charged to review and comment on the applicability of the ICRP recommendations on annual dose limits for general populations as they pertain to anticipated dose commitments after ...

The radiological legacy of U.S. nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands remains to this day and will persist for many years to come. The most severe impacts were visited upon the people of the ...

MAJURO, Marshall Islands — On a tropical Pacific atoll irradiated by U.S. nuclear testing and twice since evacuated because of the fallout, Cary Yan and Gina Zhou planned to create a unique paradise ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Exiles from a tropical paradise poisoned by American nuclear tests are at last preparing to return ...

Think of the most radioactive landscapes on the planet and the names Chernobyl and Fukushima may come to mind. Yet research published Monday suggests that parts of the Marshall Islands in the central ...

This undated aerial photo received on March 4, 2010 shows Rongelap Island, one of more than 60 in a necklace of coral islands that was engulfed by a snowstorm of radioactive fallout on March 1, 1954.

“It looked like salt,” said one of the 82 natives, recalling the shower of radioactive ash that fell on Rongelap atoll in the Marshall Islands in March 1954. “It came down like rain, and it burned ...

At 6:45 a.m. on March 1, 1954, the U.S. detonated a thermonuclear weapon at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a chain of 29 coral atolls and five islands in the central Pacific Ocean, about ...