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Article: The Marshall Islands nuclear claims tribunal: the claims of the Enewetak people.(Updating International Nuclear Law)
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- Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
- Article date:
- December 22, 2006
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I. BACKGROUND OF UNITED STATES NUCLEAR TESTING IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
The United States conducted sixty-seven nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands in a twelve year period between 1946 and 1958. Forty-three of those tests occurred on Enewetak Atoll; the remainder occurred on Bikini Atoll. The yield of the tests in the Marshall Islands totaled 108 megatons which is equivalent to 7,200 Hiroshima bombs. During the twelve-year nuclear testing program, the Marshall Islands was a United Nations Trust Territory administered by the United States, which had pledged to the United Nations to "protect the inhabitants against the loss of their lands and resources." (1)
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