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The dome on Runit Island with a crater left behind by another nuclear test. Photograph: Greg Nelson
'Poisoning the Pacific': New book details US military contamination of islands and ocean
October 16, 2020

A new book, Poisoning the Pacific, to be released Monday, chronicles the US military’s decades-long contamination of indigenous lands across the Pacific as well as the ocean itself, endangering lives and ecosystems across the vast Pacific Ocean.

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The "Baker" underwater nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll in 1946. Dozens of World War II vessels were used as targets for this weapons test, and now lie on the atoll's lagoon floor. Photo: US Navy. Photo: Supplied/ Giff Johnson
Pacific will continue to say no to nuclear weapons, UN told
October 9, 2020

Marking International Day Against Nuclear Explosions last weekend, the island nations agreed they had all suffered the effects of nuclear testing in the region.

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Graffiti in May 2018 is written on Runit Dome, in Enewetak Atoll of the Marshall Islands, urging the United States to take responsibility for the radioactive waste encapsulated inside the concrete structure. (Mika Makelainen / Yle)
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard rebuts U.S. claim that Marshall Islands nuclear waste site is safe
September 3, 2020

One of Hawaii’s high-profile politicians has dismissed a recent Department of Energy report concluding that a leaking U.S. nuclear waste repository in the Marshall Islands is safe for people there. She called for the department to convene a more independent assessment of the waste site.

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Runit dome, Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands. Credit - Image:  Foreign Correspondent: Greg Nelson
U.S nuclear waste remains pour into Pacific Ocean as radioactive remains leak from dome
February 9, 2018

A concrete dome holding the radioactive waste of 43 nuclear explosions is leaking into the ocean, veterans have warned. Click on the link below to read the full story.

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