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people; for 450 Marshallese islanders
returning home from exile after a
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new name for the AEC, has conducted environmental surveys in recent
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LANDS... Slithering, throuch shaltow waters over a dirty yellow coral,
the moray. eel_tried to hide under 3
shower: of piutonium-237 that made it
an-inhospitable Jand for humans.
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terns in the scaevola brush have had
the island to: themselves since the
‘Enewetak, Proving Ground shut
down for keeps in 1958, ending a decade ‘of keeping the Cold War warm,
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