75 years after nuclear testing in the Pacific began, the fallout continues to wreak havoc
- Written by Patricia A. O'Brien, Historian, Visiting Fellow in the School of History, Australian National University and Adjunct Professor in the Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University
The second atomic test at Bikini Atoll explodes on July 25 1946.AAP/APThis year marks 75 years since the United States launched its immense atomic testing program in the Pacific. The historical fallout from tests carried out over 12 years in the Marshall Islands, then a UN Trust Territory governed by the US, have framed seven decades of US...
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