Survivor of 1954 U.S. nuclear test still unable to return home

Survivor of 1954 U.S. nuclear test still unable to return home

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 2011 shows the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The dark-colored bay-like area (center, upper) is a crater created by a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test.

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