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

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

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Photo taken Jan. 21, 2014 shows Lemeyo Abon, survivor of radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, living in Majuro, the capital of the island nation, 600 kilometers south of her native Rongelap Atoll. Abon is still unable to return home 60 years after the United States detonated the bomb code-named "Bravo."

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