Rongelap, Marshall Islands, 60 years since Bikini fallout

Rongelap, Marshall Islands, 60 years since Bikini fallout

RONGELAP, Marshall Islands - A whole body counter to check internal exposure to radioactive substances, set up by the United States on the Marshall Islands atoll of Rongelap, is pictured in March 2014. Rongelap was severely affected by nuclear fallout from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll.

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