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 Misc. Government and Private Documents 

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Click here to watch Rep. Katie Porter [D/CA] give a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives urging the United States to issue an apology to the people of the Marshall Islands for the ongoing legacy of nuclear weapons testing:   https://twitter.com/RepKatiePorter/status/1408825131955224587

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                            Several Small Island States have just signed the visionary Nadi Bay

                             Declaration concerning the Climate Crisis severely affecting them:

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Go here:   https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/07/31/visionary-document-small-island-nations-declare-climate-crisis-pacific

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And here:    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cbSloYVSuY4mIZnUUC5ISpZUaV3NTb2y/view

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These links open directly to a website, or will open with either MS Word or as a PDF file

Note:  In 1975 Glenn Alcalay was a first year Peace Corps volunteer on Utrok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.  Alcalay was seeking legal advice about a possible class action lawsuit against the U.S. government for damages stemming from the nuclear tests at Bikini and  Enewetak between 1946-58. Having written a letter seeking advice from world-renowned UC Berkeley anthropologist Laura Nader [older sister of Ralph Nader], Alcalay never       received a reply.  Until 45 years later when the 1975 letter was published in Laura           Nader's new book:  Click here for the PDF file

Congress of Micro 1973 Report on BRAVO

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Rongelap Documents 1961

 

Marshall Islands-A Chronology-AEC

 

Interview w/ John Anjain-Rongelap-1982

 

Bravo Anti-Nuke petition 1954

 

Project 4.1-October 1954

 

BRAVO and today-Tony deBrum

 

Rongelap Public Mtg Feb 1961

 

NYT 1982 article on Bravo

 

AEC 1957 Rongelap Status

 

1958 N-Test Protests-Golden Rule

 

Bikini-The Ecologist [UK]-1981

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RMI-The Ecologist [UK]-1981

 

1980 Ltrs. re: Enewetak re-settlement

 

Bikini decision-2007

 

Barker+Rose-Johnston Rong. Rpt-2002

 

Lucky Dragon Medical Report Oct. 1954

 

Marshallese protesting AEC 1972

 

Lucky Dragon Med Rpt-1954

 

Iroij Michael Kabua Rongelap Ltr to Pres.

 

Iroij Michael Kabua Ltr to Congress

 

Lucky Dragon-Rongerik A-Vets

 

Lucky Dragon Autopsy Rpt.-1954

 

Cultural Survival-Marshalls-1984

 

AEC to Resume RMI Study-1962

 

Micronesian Support Cmte. - 1979

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Bravo-Castle weather report-1954

 

Giff Johnson-Bravo 56th Observance

 

Adam Horowitz-Nuclear Savage film

 

Atomic Vets in Marshalls DNA report

 

Utrik Final Award-$304 million

 

Marshall Islands articles

 

Anthropology News- Marshalls

 

Rongelap photos--barbara-glenn-holly-giff

 

Micro Support Cmte-Nuke Victims-1979

 

Michael Kabua Statement-2010

 
Trad. Agriculture in RMI

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Bravo Day-2010

 

Rose-Johnston-Barker book-Nuclear War Rongelap

 

Utrik-Bakal ltr to Dr. Conard 1977

 

Rongelap Award

 

Utrik Land Use Chart--1977

 

IFEU Utrik Final Rpt.-2002

 

Marshallese Language Book

 

Utrik Village Chart-1977

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Listen to this POWERFUL 1986 NPR interview with Dennis O'Rourke re: "Half Life"

The approximately 100,000 people of the Republic of the Marshall Islands are the world's proverbial "canary in the coal mine."  Having suffered - and continuing to experience - the legacy of H-bomb testing and radioactive fallout, the Marshallese remind us of humankind's worst possible scenario with horrific thermonuclear weapons, a nuclear war.

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Likewise, as we pass 420 parts per million of carbon dioxide and witness the Earth burning and the Polar ice caps melting, sea level rise poses an existential threat to all island and coastal populations, and in particular the low-lying coral atoll dwellers in the Pacific nation states of the RMI, Kibibati [formerly the Gilbert Islands], Tuvalu [formerly the Ellice Islands], and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean.

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In this sense then, the Marshallese offer us a "twofer" lesson about the threat of nuclear weapons, and the threat of destroying our precious Mother Earth by the burning of fossil fuels even Exxon knew was destroying the planet back in the 1970s!

 

This website is designed to give voice to the people of the Republic of the Marshall Islands [RMI] who have firsthand knowledge - in their bodies and DNA, in their memories and permanently in their atolls - of thermonuclear weapons and their destruction, having been at the receiving end of the United States' "foreign policy."


AtomicAtolls.org's primary mission is to provide a repository of the unfiltered history of the relationship between the U.S. and RMI through an archive of audio interviews [in both Marshallese and English*] on SoundCloud (previously unavailable to the public) and photographs of downwind Marshall Islanders who were caught in the radioactive fallout from the 67 atomic & hydrogen thermonuclear bombs detonated at Bikini and Enewetak Atolls between 1946-58.

 

In addition to these rare and powerful interviews conducted between 1981 and 2002 [by Glenn Alcalay & Kai Erikson], numerous unclassified U.S. government documents, U.N. testimonies, NGO reports, and other educational materials regarding nuclear testing issues in the Marshall Islands will also be made available to the public.  Lastly, a large archive [150] of videos and documentary films about the people of the Marshall Islands in the Nuclear Age, from the Manhattan Project to Weapons in Space are available on the Nuke Videos page on the masthead above.

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Our website is dedicated to aolep dri-Majol, people of the Marshall Islands - especially the youth - and all of the glorious people who reside on our dear Mother Earth pushing to abolish nuclear weapons, and transition to green, renewable energy ASAP

 

If there is a theme or a meme that truly captures the character and the spirit of this website, it is this: 

 

     America nuked the Gentle People.

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          Glenn Alcalay

Peace Corps Volunteer, lovely Utrok Atoll 1975-1977

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       Jeramman wot!

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* Please subscribe to the legendary Marshall Islands Journal

  Go here to subscribe:    https://marshallislandsjournal.com/

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** And please visit our other website:   MarComU.org

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