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On Fecruary 19, 1946, the American military governor
Uns Marsnell Islands announced to us that our atoll had been
f2l227T85 25 the "Cesv" site in the world for the testing of ‘nuclear
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2S 2 consequence, we would have to be relocated.
LSii then one monvn Laver, on March 5, 1946, we were taken to
Bongerinx avcll
Tne United States had previously detonated three
natlear aevictes,
at Alamogordo, New Mexico, and at Hiroshima and
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On dune 30, 1946, the United States, as part of" operation
cevonated at Bikini Atoll a nuclear explosion known as
cssrcacis,
Sy Fuly 22, 1958, the time of the last nuclear
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axing of protective measures.
anni nilated ‘taree smaller islands and portions of others and’
sitiongl pass from the ocean to the lagoon. vee
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Tne eionclusicon cof the nuclear tests, most of the coconut palms,
end ccher tlants of economic value had been destroyed.
‘The
avtil tecams covered cy dense scrub vegetation and a massive“amount
cP eguipment and ciner debris left from the tests clutteredthe
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