Marshall Islands still feeling the effects of cold war nuclear testing

from Pacific Beat · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

It's 80 years to the day since the US nuclear testing program in the Marshall Islands began with Operation Able, when a 23 kiloton atomic bomb was detonated in the atmosphere over Bikini Atoll in July, 1946.

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