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In a report last month from the U.S. Department of Energy to Congress, researchers concluded that a repository for atomic waste in the Republic of the Marshall Islands is not in “any immediate danger of collapse or failure.” The report states that the exterior concrete covering the containment structure known as the Runit Dome “is […]
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Elam Saimon burst into the First Congregational Church service carrying three guns. His first shot went into the ceiling. If he didn’t already have the attention of the 50 or so Micronesian immigrants gathered inside the Neosho, Missouri, church for a Sunday afternoon service, that did it. A recent arrival from the tiny atoll of […]
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Mesley runs a diving operation on Weno Island, one of the islands that make up Chuuk which, thanks to a U.S. Navy attack in February 1944 on Japan’s Imperial troops, has gained an international reputation as the “wreck-diving capital of the world.” Operation Hailstorm destroyed some 300 Japanese aircraft and ships, many of them in […]
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Majuro in the Marshall Islands, the dead are so close to the living that Marshallese children play on concrete burial sites marked by white plinths and headstones. Land is so scarce on parts of this small island that this particular cemetery is squeezed between homes, some abandoned, each hugging a narrow, rocky coastline on the ocean side […]
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the first floor of the Rongelap town hall on Majuro, several Marshallese women sit on the tile floor or in plastic chairs. They’re wearing the long, flower-print dresses common in the islands as a professor from Japan is asking them to trace their hands onto a tapestry that will be shared with her students. One […]
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Jackson is running for mayor of a tiny coral atoll that he has not lived on for almost 25 years. It’s called Enewetak, and it’s in the Marshall Islands in the Central Pacific Ocean. It’s a narrow, circular necklace of about 40 islets located more than 2,000 miles from where Jackson now lives in Hawaii. […]
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Sunday in February 1946, as the devoutly Christian residents of Bikini Atoll left their open-air, thatched-roof church, they were greeted by U.S. Commodore Ben H. Wyatt, the military governor of the Marshall Islands. Wyatt, a soft-spoken Kentucky native and “pint-sized end” for the Navy’s football team, had traveled to Bikini on a seaplane from Kwajalein, a U.S. […]
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can’t be more than 6 or 7 years old, but she shows no hesitation when a reporter and photographer approach her outside her family’s tent in a homeless camp in the Kakaako area of Honolulu. “Do you have propane or diapers?” she asks, making it clear that she will accept either — or cash. She […]
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