threatened by rising sea levels in the Marshall Islands. Dubbed "the tomb", it holds tonnes of radioactive debris from dozens of US atomic bomb tests carried out during the Cold War. Congress ...

The United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958. In a hydrogen bomb testing at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954, islanders were exposed to the radioactive ...

The professor worked on similar projects for Hiroshima and Nagasaki that involved archiving testimony of atomic bomb survivors ... nuclear test conducted by the US in the Marshall Islands ...

Though not the most well-known atomic blast sites, the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls were victims of 46 bombs dropped by the US between 1946 and 1958. As such, parts of the Marshall Islands in the ...

After a major nuclear test seven decades ago, the U.S. government began secretly studying the Marshallese people like “mice.” The country has never healed. Seven decades after Castle Bravo ...

Matashichi Oishi, a long-time anti-nuclear activist and victim of the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, died on March 7. He was 87. Oishi, born in Shizuoka ...

That hydrogen bomb unleashed a staggering power ... A huge concrete dome covers the site on Runit Island in the Marshall Islands where repeated nuclear tests were carried out But the biggest ...

Related: What happens when a nuclear bomb explodes ... On top of the health hazards, nuclear testing in places like the ...

On November 1, 1952, the US tested Ivy Mike over the Marshall Islands ... on reef as the US was slowly running out of islands upon which to test nuclear weapons. The blast would have incinerated ...

The Castle Bravo was scheduled for testing on March 1, 1954, the same day that Lucky Dragon No. 5 arrived at the Marshall Islands ... characteristics of an atomic bomb and applied them to Gojira." ...