Nuclear Testing Chronology 

This timeline is assembled with selections curated from:    Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands: A Brief History by Giff Johnson, Majuro, Micronitor News & Printing Company, August 1996.   Micronitor News publishes the weekly Marshall Islands Journal:   https://marshallislandsjournal.com/   And For the Good of Mankind by Jack Niedenthal, Bravo Publishing 2013; https://www.bikiniatoll.com/

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And if you dare . . . Listen to this 6-minute NPR interview with Australian filmmaker

     Dennis O'Rourke and his explanation of the 1954 "Bravo" H-bomb cover-up       

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This website is designed to give voice to the people of the Republic of the Marshall Islands [RMI] who have firsthand knowledge - in their bodies and DNA, in their memories and permanently in their atolls - of thermonuclear weapons and their destruction, having been at the receiving end of the United States' "foreign policy."


AtomicAtolls.org's primary mission is to provide a repository of the unfiltered history of the relationship between the U.S. and RMI through an archive of audio interviews [in both Marshallese and English*] on SoundCloud (previously unavailable to the public) and photographs of downwind Marshall Islanders who were caught in the radioactive fallout from the 67 atomic & hydrogen thermonuclear bombs detonated at Bikini and Enewetak Atolls between 1946-58.

 

In addition to these rare and powerful interviews conducted between 1981 and 2002 [by Glenn Alcalay & Kai Erikson], numerous unclassified U.S. government documents, U.N. testimonies, NGO reports, and other educational materials regarding nuclear testing issues in the Marshall Islands will also be made available to the public.  Lastly, a large archive of videos and documentary films about the Nuclear Age, from the Manhattan Project to Weapons in Space will be made available.

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Our website is dedicated to aolep dri-Majol, people of the Marshall Islands - especially the youth - and all of the glorious people who reside on our dear Mother Earth.  If there is a theme or a meme that truly captures the character and the spirit of this website, it is this:  America nuked the Gentle People.

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Glenn Alcalay

Peace Corps Volunteer, Utrok Atoll 1975-1977

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Jeramman wot!

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* Please subscribe to the legendary Marshall Islands Journal

   Go here to subscribe:    https://marshallislandsjournal.com/

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Glenn Alcalay & Andrew Fuchs

www.AtomicAtolls.org

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