MARSHALL ISLANDS

The Marshall Islands is a Pacific island nation consisting of 29 atolls and five isolated islands in the central Pacific Ocean, situated between Hawaii and the Philippines. It was the site of extensive United States nuclear weapons testing between 1946 and 1958, including the Castle Bravo test of 1954, the largest nuclear device ever detonated by the United States, whose fallout contaminated several inhabited atolls and displaced populations that have never been able to permanently return.

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