59th anniv. of Bikini Atoll test

59th anniv. of Bikini Atoll test

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Marshall Islands Senator Kenneth Kedi speaks during a rally in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on March 1, 2013. Protesters called for the elimination of nuclear weapons at the rally held on the 59th anniversary of the exposure of a Japanese tuna fishing boat to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in 1954.

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