Marshall Islands locals watched radioactive coral fall from the sky for hours after the US’s bomb tests, 71 years ago. Now they face another existential threat.

In 1954 the Castle Bravo test exploded a 15-megaton bomb – one thousand times more deadly than the one dropped on Hiroshima.

A new study into the legacy of the US nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands has shown the impacts were significantly greater than has previously been acknowledged. The research, which was ...

Due to incorrect information provided by Getty Images, an earlier version of this column incorrectly used a photo depicting a French nuclear test at Fangataufa Atoll in 1970 rather than the U.S ...

Marshall Islanders are still plagued by health and environmental effects of 67 U.S. nuclear bomb tests from 1946 to 1958, which included "Castle Bravo" at Bikini Atoll in 1954 - the largest U.S ...

After World War II, the Marshall Islands became a nuclear testing ground for the United States, leaving a legacy of displacement and cancer. Now rising sea levels and the prospect of relocating is ...

Project 2025 calls for the United States to “Reject ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.” That would be a tremendous step back, says the former US Ambassador to the Marshall Islands—home ...

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - The Marshall Islands halted key negotiations with the US on Friday over ongoing grievances relating to nuclear testing dating back 70 years on the atolls in the heart of ...

— Marshall Islands Permanent Mission in Geneva (@RMIGeneva) October 7, 2024. At the 79th General Assembly of the UN, Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine urged the UN to lead by example by ...

Over a period of more than a decade, the US military conducted dozens of nuclear tests in the Pacific. Years later, soldiers were sent to the Marshall Islands to try and clean up the fallout from ...

During his four years of active duty, he spent 57 days on the Marshall Islands during the government’s nuclear bomb testing. He was just 19 years old. “We were there for the first eight ...