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"The US government is responsible for this storage site and must ensure ... At the time of nuclear tests, the Marshall Islands was a territory created by the UN but administered by the US.

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 ...

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 ...