{"article":{"id":104126,"heading":"1 March 1954 - Operation Bravo and the Marshall Islands Human Guinea Pigs","author":"AmigaPhil","created":"2004-03-02 01:57:28","modified":"2004-03-03 21:23:50","last_modified":"Thu, 04 Mar 2004 04:23:50","article":"

Despite a glitch in the meteo prevision where the radioactive cloud
did change his curse to pass over the Marshall Islands (Bikini Atoll),
the 1,000 times Hiroshima bomb did exploded as planned, and without
evacuating the 20,000 inhabitants of Rongelap and Rongerik.
For many years, the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands were used as
unvolonter 'guinea pigs' on many tests and studies about the aftermath
of the USA nuclear bomb researches.


See also:

- Declassification of Marshall Islands Atmospheric Nuclear Test
http:\/\/www.osti.gov\/html\/osti\/opennet\/document\/press\/pc28.html<\/a>

- Rongelap Revisited
http:\/\/www.janesoceania.com\/marshalls_rongelap\/<\/a>

- Nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands (PDF)
http:\/\/www.enenkio.org\/adobe\/historynucleartesting.pdf<\/a>

- Chronology of Nuclear Tests on the Marshall Islands
http:\/\/www.rmiembassyus.org\/nuclear\/chronology.html<\/a>

- The Marshall Islands Nuclear Claims Tribunal
http:\/\/nuclearclaimstribunal.com\/text.htm<\/a>


- The documentary film by the australian Dennis O'Rourke:
\"Half Life - A Parable for The Nuclear Age\" (1986)
(French title: \"Les Cobayes de l'Ere Nucleaire\")

- \"The Atomic Cafe\" (available on DVD) by Kevin Rafferty,
Jayne Loader, and Pierce Rafferty




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