60 YEARS ON ... PEOPLE ARE STILL AFRAID ~ IMAGINE WHAT NUCLEAR/RADIATION CAN DO ... 2 MARCH 2014 Islanders afraid to go home 60 years after Bikini Atoll H-bomb ... The Marshall Islands marks 60 years since the devastating US hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll Saturday, with angry exiled residents saying they are too fearful ever to go home. Part of the intense Cold War nuclear arms race, the 15-megaton Bravo test on March 1, 1954 was a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It vaporised one island and exposed thousands in the surrounding area to radioactive fallout. READ MORE > news.msn/world/islanders-afraid-to-go-home-60-years-after-bikini-atoll-h-bomb ================================ Rongelap Atoll or Namorik Atoll is a coral atoll of 61 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is only 8 square miles (21 km2), but it encloses a lagoon with an area of 1,000 square miles (2,600 km2). It is historically notable for its close proximity to American hydrogen bomb tests in 1954, and was particularly devastated by fallout from the Castle Bravo test. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongelap_Atoll ====================================== Marshall Islands - Glimpses of Rongelap Atoll Scenes and views of the island during a visit in December 2011. Shows the construction to relocate indigenous population later. youtube/embed/UQcCmY_XO7Y ====================================== PIC BELOW > 1 ~ Left/Airview ... Rongelap Island, seen in March 2010, is one of more than 60 in a necklace of coral islands that was engulfed by a snowstorm of radioactive fallout on March 1, 1954. 2 ~ Beautiful Beach on Rongelap Island ...
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