Rongelap, Marshall Islands, 60 years since Bikini fallout

Rongelap, Marshall Islands, 60 years since Bikini fallout

RONGELAP, Marshall Islands - Members of a family of an unidentified worker on the Marshall Islands atoll of Rongelap are 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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