Marshall Islands

wide panoramic view of Bikini atom bomb test

1946: The Bikini Tests and Public Opinion

By Bill Laurence | Magazine, Nuclear Weapons

A street scene with damaged buildings, rubble, a cyclist, pedestrians, and two trams in the city of Hiroshima showing signs of destruction.

The nuclear road not taken—and its consequences 80 years after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By Arjun Makhijani | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

Radiation exposure victims fight for compensation as nuclear weapons funding soars

By Chloe Shrager | Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

atomic bomb test in Marshall Islands

Project 2025’s stance on nuclear testing: A dangerous step back

By Tom Armbruster | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

A protester near the Trinity nuclear test site. Legislation to extend and expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) was recently reintroduced in the US Senate after stalling in the House late im 2024. (Credit: Jonny Coker / KRWG)

Why cost should not be an obstacle to compensating nuclear survivors

By Alicia Sanders-Zakre, Susi Snyder | Analysis, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

The horrors of nuclear weapons testing

By Walter Pincus | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

StoryMap: Reimagining security in Oceania

By Tamara Lilinoe Patton | Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

Lessons for confronting deterrence and militarism from Hawaii, America’s ‘unsinkable aircraft carrier’

By Tamara Lilinoe Patton | Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

A nuclear weapon test by the US military at Bikini Atoll in 1946. (Credit: US Defense Department image via Wikimedia Commons, licensed with PD-USGov-Military)

What justice means to communities affected by nuclear testing

By Rebecca Davis Gibbons | Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay, Voices of Tomorrow

Essays: Why the Marshall Islands’ nuclear history still matters today

By Rose Gottemoeller, Sally Clark | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay

A current security imperative: the US role in the Marshall Islands

By Rose Gottemoeller | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay

Nuclear tragedy in the Marshall Islands

By Sally Clark | Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Personal Essay