It reports on how “bad faith” negotiations by the U.S. government produced “a flawed nuclear compensation settlement” in the Marshall Islands.

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Why is it that as we approach the 60th anniversary of the Bravo hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954, the U.S. nuclear legacy continues to vex relations between the Marshall Islands and Washington?

Bravo, at 15 megatons, was America’s largest hydrogen bomb test. A thousand times more powerful than the atom bomb that killed 100,000 people in Hiroshima, Bravo spewed radioactive fallout on unsuspecting Marshall Islanders, U.S. servicemen monitoring weather conditions on Rongerik Atoll, and Japanese fishermen who had the misfortune to be fishing near the Bikini test site.

From day one, the U.S. government covered up the actual fallout impact not only of the Bravo shot but of all six of the large bombs tested at Bikini in 1954. …

Photo: Nuclear test in the Pacific. (roberthuffstutter)

—Chad Blair